Quotes about Interconnectedness
We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself
— Carl Sagan
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I bowed my heard, and I knew that we have a lot to learn from the leaf because it was not afraid - it knew that nothing can be born and nothing can die.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When conditions are sufficient, we manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient, we no longer manifest. It does not mean that we do not exist. Like radio waves without a radio, we do not manifest.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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