Quotes about Interconnectedness

Even the most personal prayer no longer belongs to the individual, but to the church that gave birth to this person and through which this individual lives.

In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one's own acts and deeds, compared with what we become only through other people.

In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

There is a thin thread that weaves from only you to hundreds of thousands of lives

I don't really differentiate between screens so much anymore.