Quotes About Interconnectedness

On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

If it is in the highest good for all life everywhere.

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

For example, given that we depend on other people for our well-being and they depend on us, we have certain obligations towards each other; given that we have certain potentials the realization of which is good for us, potentials which require a certain amount of effort to realize, we have a duty to make that effort; and so forth.

If you represent the plumbing and heating business, you are the mortal enemy of the textile industry, because warmer homes mean lighter clothes. If you represent the printers, how can you shake hands with the radio equipment man?…