Quotes About Connectedness

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

Cuando se trata del clima, los países ya no son soberanos. Se encuentran a merced de acciones que otras personas efectúan en la otra punta del planeta.

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

Reverence for life means being in touch with the life force. You feel the same power flowing through you as through every living thing; even the dust in a beam of light dances to the same rhythm. Therefore, life isn't limited to plants and animals—everything possesses a glowing, animated vitality. Reverence for life feels warm, connected, and exhilarating.

Los grandes visionarios de las tradiciones místicas sugieren que lo que experimentamos todos los días es una realidad proyectada, en la que los acontecimientos y las cosas sólo están separadas en el tiempo y el espacio, de manera aparente. En el reino más profundo, todos somos miembros del mismo cuerpo y cuando una parte del cuerpo se mueve, todas las demás son afectadas al instante.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.

Life is sacred—for everyone, not just monks and mystics. But to feel it and see it, there are things you can do, things that bring out the wonder and connectedness of everything in life. It begins with your intention, looking in. And it's furthered by your attention, looking out.

When connectedness to others is truly understood, hurting others simply becomes impossible. Ignoring the plight of others or failing to appreciate what they add to the world is also impossible. Connectedness inherently creates an interest in the welfare of others because it becomes indistinguishable from self-interest.

What we have lost, I think, is a sense of our connectedness to each other and to our ideals—the America that John F. Kennedy asked that we contribute to.

We forget that nothing happens in life independently of other things.

Everything that exists is a manifestation of the divine. And so nothing can be devoid of divinity. And so nothing can be evil.

The first theme is "connectedness". Quantum mechanics tells us that there is no such thing as a completely isolated object: objects are connected. The impression of separateness is just an illusion.

What has helped me prevent injuries is being connected and having my body aligned. Every morning, I roll out and then work on my core and my balance.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

The timing of the Internet explosion means that it cannot possibly be causally linked to the crumbling of social connectedness described in previous chapters. Voting, giving, trusting, meeting, visiting, and so on had all begun to decline while Bill Gates was still in grade school.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

We are all shining stars part of this UNIVERSE, which orbits the one SUN, but in different directions.

I was a spiritual kid.

Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality.

It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.