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INTERCONNECTION
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The interdependency of humankind, the relevance
of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient,
ancient wisdom.
-- Rebecca
Adamson
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The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality
in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence
of all living things, a holistic and balanced view
of the world. All things are bound together. All
things connect. What happens to the Earth happens
to the children of the earth. Humankind has not
woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever
we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
-- Rebecca
Adamson
In
a society where all are related, simple decisions require
the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is
society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must
survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the
understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous
people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get
along.
-- Rebecca
Adamson
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“SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we
are all connected to accomplish something good.
It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something
more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a
force for good, by bringing a social conscience
to social networking.”
-- Kevin
Bacon
The
life I touch for good or ill will touch another life,
and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling
stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
-- Frederick Buechner
The
person who tries to live alone will not succeed
as a human being. His heart withers if it does
not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away
if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts
and finds no other inspiration
-- Pearl
S. Buck
A
diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because
it contains many species with overlapping ecological
functions that can partially replace one another.
When a particular species is destroyed by a severe
disturbance so that a link in the network is broken,
a diverse community will be able to survive and
reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex
the network is, the more complex its pattern of
interconnections, the more resilient it will be.
-- Fritjof
Capra
No
part of the human community can live entirely on its own
planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the
rest of humanity.
-- Hugo Chavez
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The reality today is that we are all interdependent
and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore,
the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving
differences and clashes of interests, whether between
individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
- The
Dalai Lama
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The
reality today is that we are all interdependent
and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore,
the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving
differences and clashes of interests, whether
between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
- The
Dalai Lama
A
human being is a part of the whole, called by us,
"Universe," a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as
something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is
a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature in
its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely,
but the striving for such achievement is in itself
a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner
security
-- Albert
Einstein
Our
task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature and its beauty.
-- Albert
Einstein
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“...the
world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance,
time, doesn’t work...We’re all so connected. We
can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about
another family miles away but we somehow have to
factor it in where we can."
-- Ralph
Fiennes
Today
the network of relationships linking the human race to
itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex
that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary
degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however
crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together
of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give
a good idea of the behavior of the whole.
-- Murray Gell-Mann
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You cannot get through a single day without having
an impact on the world around you. What you do makes
a difference, and you have to decide what kind of
difference you want to make.
~ Jane
Goodall
We
can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and
all be together.
--
Herbie
Hancock
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It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness
of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism,
humanitarianism, animal rights -- all those things
-- are one and the same.
-- Daryl
Hannah
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It's
really important to me to show the interconnectedness
of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism,
humanitarianism, animal rights -- all those things --
are one and the same.
-- Daryl
Hannah
Every
man is more than just himself; he also represents the
unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable
point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once
in this way, and never again.
-- Herman Hesse
The
welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
-- Helen
Keller
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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. --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
We
are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.
Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects
the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings,
and deeds are listened to by all that is.
-- Serge Kahili King
"Our
vision of interconnectedness resonates with new
networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations
linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing
the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity
within and across national lines... If governments
and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy,
wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to
grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness
for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability,
they may become irrelevant."
~ Dennis
Kucinich
If
you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful.
Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and
rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired,
you lose the pattern.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves
as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If
the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster
a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many
traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities
has been to help us see our connection with all
other human beings.
-- Michael
Lerner
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“When
we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our
understanding of our own lives."
-- Yo-Yo
Ma
We
cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected
by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic
fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as
results.
-- Herman Melville
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When
one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it
attached to the rest of the world.
~ John
Muir
Tug
on anything at all and you'll find it connected
to everything else in the universe.
~ John
Muir
We
have a stake in one another ... what binds us together
is greater than what drives us apart, and ... if
enough people believe in the truth of that proposition
and act on it, then we might not solve every problem,
but we can get something meaningful done for the
people with whom we share this Earth.
-- Barack
Obama
We
don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and
whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of
one's life and all the weavings of individual threads
from one to another that creates something.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
Our
interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating
truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that
the world's poor live, and especially die, with
the awareness that the United States is doing little
to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could
offer them survival, dignity and eventually the
escape from poverty.
-- Jeffrey
Sachs
Isn't
everyone a part of everyone else?
-- Budd Schulberg
All
things are connected like the blood that unites
us, We did not weave the web of life. We are merely
a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do
to ourselves.
~ Chief
Seattle
"Whatever
befalls the earth, befalls the people of the earth."
~ Chief
Seattle
What
is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were
gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the
spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon
happens to man. All things are connected.
~ Chief
Seattle
Systems
thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework
for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for
seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots."
It is a set of general principles -- distilled over the
course of the twentieth century, spanning fields as diverse
as the physical and social sciences, engineering, and
management.... During the last thirty years, these tools
have been applied to understand a wide range of corporate,
urban, regional, economic, political, ecological, and
even psychological systems. And systems thinking is a
sensibility -- for the subtle interconnectedness that
gives living systems their unique character.
-- Peter Senge
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"Independence"... middle-class blasphemy. We are
all dependent on one another, every soul of us on
earth.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
"I
see a world in the future in which we understand
that all life is related to us and we treat that
life with great humility and respect."
-- David
Suzuki
The
same stream of life that runs through my veins night and
day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust
of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks
into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the
same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are
made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And
my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my
blood this moment.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
I
am a part of all that I have met.
-- Lord Tennyson
"We
are faced with having to learn again about interdependency
and the need for rootedness after several centuries of
having systematically—and proudly—dismantled our roots,
ties, and traditions. We had grown so tall we thought
we could afford to cut the roots that held us down, only
to discover that the tallest trees need the most elaborate
roots of all."
-- Paul L. Wachtel
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"There
is no power for change greater than a community
discovering what it cares about."
-- Margaret
J. Wheatley
Relationships
are all there is. Everything in the universe only
exists because it is in relationship to everything
else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop
pretending we are individuals that can go it alone
-- Margaret
J. Wheatley
The
oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread
that holds us together.
-- Muhammad
Yunus
