Interconnectedness Quotes

"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing." "Spirituality is not about becoming special, it is about becoming one with everything." "Our consciousness is a part of the whole and by acting compassionately, think about it, we're rooting for the whole " "My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together" "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." "We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." "Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me." "In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know" "But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." "Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe." "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere." "From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves" "We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree." "Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations the relations within which these individuals stand" "We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness" "We are all affecting the world every moment" "The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it." "Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another." "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world" "Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous."