Quotes About Interconnected

Genuine spiritual practice requires us to learn how to stop the war. This is a first step, but actually it must be practiced over and over until it becomes our way of being. The inner stillness of a person who truly "is peace" brings peace to the whole interconnected web of life, both inner and outer. To stop the war, we need to begin with ourselves.

all these complex systems have somehow acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance point—often called the edge of chaos—is were the components of a system never quite lock into place, and yet never quite dissolve into turbulence, either.

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour. VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE WAVES

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organizational chart.

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

Your brain has three layers that evolved over millions of years: a primitive reptile layer, a more evolved mammal layer, and a final primate layer. They all interconnect, but in effect they often act like three different brains—and they're often at war with each other.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Human evolution has ceased because in the modern world, no one is really isolated from the rest of humanity.

Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.

A portion of your soul has been entwined with mine. A gentle kind of togetherness, while separate we stand. As two trees deeply rooted in separate plots of ground, while their topmost branches come together, forming a miracle of lace against the heavens.

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

We. Everything was we now.

The future of your organization and the potential of your employees are intertwined; their destines are linked." - Matthew Kelly, The Dream Manager

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. . . . Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

While conservatives like to put the focus for health on individual responsibility and "lifestyle," a term they use as a weapon, Geronimus's research reminds us of the social, interconnected nature of our bodies and our health, and the way that racism exacts debilitating vigilance from Black bodies.