Quotes About Interconnectedness

Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.

There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.

love—God's love to me, and my love to God, and my love to my fellowmen. The three are one; you cannot separate them.

God's love to me, and my love to God, and my love to my fellowmen. The three are one; you cannot separate them.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together.

When I visited the ambassador from Grenada, she summed up the dynamic with a phrase I had heard often, 'If America sneezes, people in my country catch a cold' (p. 402).

Poor and rich, wise and unwise, we are all links of the same great chain.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every thing has a life of its own, and that we are all one life.

Are the acidifying bacteria in milk or the yeasts in grape juice our servants, or are we doing their bidding by creating the specialized environments in which they can proliferate so wildly? We must stop thinking in such hierarchical terms and recognize that we, like all creation, are participants in infinite interrelated biological feedback loops, simultaneously unfolding a vast multiplicity of interdependent evolutionary narratives.

Oneness is always growing in the world, boy. Two but not two. It's always there, connecting its roots, humming. I can't be part of it--that's the price I pay for taking myself away. But you can be. You can vibrate with its heartbeat. You may be on your own. But you won't be alone.

All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.

Donne had declared that no person is an island. He had it exactly wrong. We all are.

la guerra, el comercio y la piratería son una trinidad inseparable.

Voinko olla avuksi, sitä en tiedä, yksinäinen ei paljoa taida, vaan se joka oikealla hetkelle liittyy moniin muihin.

To be loyal to "the highest" in us, we must act with reverence toward all of life. By defining virtue in a cooperative rather than a competitive fashion, we seek the common good, which moves us wherever possible from "either/or" confrontation to "both/and" reconciliation.

? m?s? gyvenim? ?eina tiek kit? gyvenim?, kad j? nesuskai?iuosi.

The joint realization that we live in a remarkable cosmic cocoon and can create languages and rocket ships in an otherwise apparently dumb universe ought to be transformative. Until we find other self-aware intelligences, we are how the universe thinks. We might as well start enjoying one another's company.

We are entering the Age of Awareness, marked by machine intelligence everywhere.