Quotes About Connectedness

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson. He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus. He tells me I need to be fully human. He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for connectedness with the society around me.

He tells me I need to be "fully human." He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me.

I have arrived, I am home," can make you very happy.

About thirty years ago I was looking for an English word to describe our deep interconnection with everything else. I liked the word "togetherness," but I finally came up with the word "interbeing." The verb "to be" can be misleading, because we cannot be by ourselves, alone.

If I thought I was only doing one thing—running—I would be naïve. Even in my leisure, when strapped to a web-enabled device, I'm furiously multitasking and, in a very positive way, highly distracted.

This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved.

This is what women want: to be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. In the next few pages, I will try to explain what this entails.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.

You think the choices you make just affect you and the other person, but you don't realize how one choice ripples toward everybody. You included.

We can get a sense of it, to be sure, though it will upgrade our ideas of real and thing to boot. Ecology shows us that all beings are connected. The ecological thought is the thinking of interconnectedness. The ecological thought is a thought about ecology, but it's also a thinking that is ecological. Thinking the ecological thought is part of an ecological project. The

The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Given enough time, decentralized connected dumb things can become smarter than we think. Second

Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

People think that what happens to someone else has nothing to do with them. They think that what happens in one place doesn't matter any place else.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Cada ser y cada cosa del universo tan solo existen en función de su coexistencia con los otros seres y con las otras cosas. La independencia de un ser o una cosa es el resultado de la interdependencia de todos los seres y de todas las cosas.

Cecilia Kapua Lindo sums up this sentiment in "Grateful to All Beings": From time to time I too am misled by the myth That exalts the independent, self-made man. Upon hearing the voice of the Enlightened One, Any air of self-importance Is deflated, like an empty balloon. And I become aware that my existence depends Upon the many lives that are slain for me Each time I sit down to eat my meal.

For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That is the way I deal with life and tough moments. I keep in touch with something bigger than me. And I connect with people who have an interior life - a connection with something bigger than them.