Quotes about Interconnectedness

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!

An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.

But when we talk about God, we're talking about the very straightforward affirmation that everything has a singular, common source and is infinitely, endlessly, deeply connected.

You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. —Alan Watts

We crave coming together and connecting with others because this is what the entire universe has been doing for billions and billions and billions of years.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.