Quotes about Interconnectedness

All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them.

What we all desire and need from one another, of course, is that life energy called eros! It always draws, creates, and connects things.

Hope cannot be had by the individual if everything is corporately hopeless. It is hard to heal individuals when the whole thing is seen as unhealable.

How can anyone read the whole or even a small part of John 17 and think either Christ or Jesus is about anything other than unity and union? "Father, may they all be one," Christ says in verse 21, repeating this same desire and intention in many ways in the full prayer. I suspect God gets what God prays for!

Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.

What if Christ is another name for everything—in its fullness?

It is no longer about being correct. It is about being connected. Being in right relationship is much, much better than just trying to be "right.

instead of saying that God came into the world through Jesus, maybe it would be better to say that Jesus came out of an already Christ-soaked world. The second Incarnation flowed out of the first, out of God's loving union with physical creation.

My point is this: When I know that the world around me is both the hiding place and the revelation of God, I can no longer make a significant distinction between the natural and the supernatural, between the holy and the profane.

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.

Maturity is produced through relationships and community.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.