Quotes about Interconnectedness
Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. There is no being; there is only inter-being.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
True happiness does not reside in the ill-considered consumption of goods paid for by the suffering, famine, and death of others, but in a life enlightened by the feeling of a constant responsibility for one's neighbor.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp
— Herman Melville
Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.
— Herman Melville
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
And we are just one little cell within the Body, very full of life but only a small part of the whole. Cells are born and cells die, but the Body lives forever.
— Shane Claiborne
Every time you help someone else, not only are you helping that person, but you are helping every person they touch, AND you are helping yourself - because we are all ONE.
— Hal Elrod
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
— Albert Einstein
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
— Desmond Tutu
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.
— Desmond Tutu
We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
— Matt Chandler