Quotes about Interconnectedness

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.

Human beings are by their nature social and political, living in community even more than every other animal.

Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.

A man is related to all nature.

On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.

Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.