Quotes About Interconnectedness

There is no reason for a feeling of separation from anything or anyone, because we have been it all and done it all. How then can we feel self-righteous or removed from anyone or any action? Ther is no spot on this earth where we have not laughed, cried, been born and died. So in some sense, every single place we go is home. Everyone we meet we know. Everything that is done we are capable of.

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

There's no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

it's human nature to want to seize control when the people we love are suffering. But trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

with every action we take, we send love or suffering into the web that connects us.

If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being—someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.

We live in a network of inter connectivity.

As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.

Nehru, speaking of his country's dreams, said: 'Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.' It

Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.

Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.

A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me