Quotes about Interconnectedness

It is a law of man's nature, written into his very essence, and just as much a part of him as the desire to build houses and cultivate the land and marry and have children and read books and sing songs, that he should want to stand together with other men in order to acknowledge their common dependence on God, their Father and Creator.

We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we can everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others, yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must find ourselves.

God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body. I do not wash my feet to make them more beautiful than my face.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.