Quotes about Interconnectedness

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it.

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

Love is the thread that binds us.

Who sees Me in all,And sees all in Me,For him I am not lost,And he is not lost for Me.

This Self is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of this Self.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!