Quotes About Connectedness

Thousands, tens of thousands, and millions right now are mobilizing to stoke those fires from below, to develop a shared faith that injustice can be opposed and justice aspired to, that human solidarity and connectedness can become a living force, that a spirit of courage can be tempered with vast feelings of love and generosity, and that a full and passionate embrace of the lives we're given can be combined with an eagerness to move forward toward a worldwide beloved community.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

The three are: a sense of mutual caring and connectedness with others; the maintenance, insofar as we can influence it by our own actions, of the physical capability of our bodies; and creativity. Each of the three requires work; each of the three brings immense rewards.

Central to the stories in which people featured, was the bond of love with the concomitants: duty, obedience, responsibility, honor, and orderliness; always orderliness. Like the seasons of the year, life was depicted full of cause and effect, predictability and order; connectedness and oneness.

Greed is rightly considered a deadly sin because it erodes the moral values that encourage us to care for the common good. Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival [...] replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness.

Everyone needs to be in touch with the needs of their spirit. This connectedness calls us to spiritual awakening - to love. In the biblical book of John, a passage reminds us that 'anyone who does not know love is still in death.

We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.

ecological self"—a term author Joanna Macy uses to describe one who has conquered the personal ego and knows that she or he is not separate from anything else.

I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

I believe it was Jung who said that all beings are joined by invisible threads. You pull one, and the whole set moves. That is why every small act affects everything and everyone. Titus in Love in Lowercase

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

Like flowers of the field, we are each unique, yet all brought forth by the same Source.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.

Nothing can be separated from everything else.

I was also startled by the fact that research participants consistently described both joyfulness and gratitude as spiritual practices that were bound to a belief in human connectedness and a power greater than us.

They live inside of what is essentially one huge wearable. Everyone connected to everyone even when they shit.

Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

I myself am identical with nature.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.