“We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”
― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom

“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and complex thought to accompany them. We call them primates. A single branch of these primates would develop a genetic mutation that allowed speech, and that branch—Homo Sapiens—would invent agriculture and civilization and philosophy and art and science. All in the last ten thousand years. Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head, and predict the existence of gravitational waves. A century later, technology capable of seeing these waves would finally catch up with the prediction, just days before that gravity wave, which had been traveling for 1.3 billion years, washed over Earth and was detected.

Yes, Einstein was a badass.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“A successful business is not built just on your expertise, it needs mastering of all the business pieces and maintaining the interconnection among them in a profitable and fruitful way.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“A nurse’s aid threw the contents of a patient’s water glass out a window, the mass of water hitting the ground dislodging a pebble which rolled across the angled pavement and fell with a click on a stone culvert in the ditch below, startling a squirrel having at some sort of nut right there on the concrete pipe, causing the squirrel to run up the nearest tree, in doing which it disturbed a slender brittle branch and surprised a few nervous morning birds, of of which, preparatory to flight released a black-and-white glob of droppings, which glob fell neatly on the windshield of the tiny car of one Lenore Beadsman, just as she pulled into a parking space. Lenore got out of the car while birds flew away, making sounds.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.”
― Yasmine Galenorn, Totem Magic: Dance of the Shapeshifter

“But as time goes on we not only remember specific things in relation to the people we have loved; their lives get built into our lives and finally the transference is complete. We are what we are because of them.”
― May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep

“...at some indiscernible moment he sees all of us clearly — every face distinct, like immiscible droplets of water, all of us individuals constituting an interconnected sea of beings.”
― David Michael Miller, The Becomer

“Gazing into the heavens on a starry night a person sees the reflection of their own soul staring back at them. Perceiving our microscopic place in the revolving cosmos, we search to ascertain a meaning for our existence; we stretch our minds to comprehend a reason that justifies our fleeting journey in a universe composed of dark energy. Comprehension of a full-bodied meaning for living seems to lie just beyond my grasp. Perhaps I struggle dialing into a meaning for life because living entails adapting to a constant state of chaos. Can I harmonize the noisy commotion and distracting clutter in my life? I need to overcome personal inertia by learning to become comfortable with these changing times. In actuality, I have no choice but to capitulate to the evolution of facets in the world. Everything in the universe is undergoing constant change. Alike all humankind, I am also in the process of evolving. Who I was will undoubtedly affect who I will become. Who I am now is not who I will always be. The demands imposed upon us by the exterior world prevent stagnation of our interior world. We must all respond to change by either growing or dying. Even a blockhead such as me proves alterable, because inherent mutability ensures the survival of all persons. The entire world is interconnected; we are part of the cosmic consciousness. Many factors beyond our direct control influence us.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Most ecofeminists reject dichotomies and hierarchies as alien to the natural world – nature is interconnections.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“The core of compassionate artificial intelligence is the connection - connection to feel the pain and suffering of humanity. It is to develop integrated systems that can preserve and enhance human values of peace, love, harmony, happiness and freedom.”
― Amit Ray, Compassionate Artificial Intelligence

“When you look at sand do you see its relation to water or do you see its imprints of life?”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

“Ecofeminist analysis is generally much more expansive than environmentalism and feminism. . . . Ecofeminism draws on ecological, socialist, and feminist thought, incorporating a handful of social justice movements, such as feminism, peace activism, labor movements, women’s health care, anti-nuclear, environmental, and animal liberation.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“Nature is interconnections.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“No individual or species is privileged in the world of nature: All eat and are eaten; all become sick and die in their turn. Humans are part of an interconnected continuum of life.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“The concept of self as a solo thing is so toxic to the way we relate to one another and the earth-it's so non integrative,when integration is not present you get chaos and rigidity. That's what we are seeing in depression, anxiety and suicide and that's what we are seeing in climate change issues. So whether you are talking about social justice issues, or climate injustices, its all about us as a contemporary culture missing the reality of interconnection.....If we Identify this problem it can be a win win win. For the individual you can liberate yourself from the idea of a separate self, for our human relationships we will realize we are all one human family differentiated but linked, and for the planet which is waiting for us to wake up . Human beings have excessively differentiated themselves from nature and so we are using the earth like a trash can. Instead of realizing that we are fundamentally interconnected to nature and that's a true way to live an integrated life. People all around the earth are waiting for to wake up from this weird slumber of a delusion of a separate self”
― Dan Seigel

“If we are going to preserve the viability of life on this planet, we must strive to understand the connections, the interrelatedness of all things.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

“In caring for others, we are really caring for ourselves, for we all nurture one another in the garden of the heart.”
― Laurence Overmire

“Ecofeminists call attention to the fact that environmentalists, feminists, and those fighting racism and poverty, are pulling on different straws in the same broom.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“Thus, once you have adopted such an attitude of infinite interconnectedness, you naturally want to liberate not just yourself but all beings from suffering. The Buddha calls this „the conception of the Spirit of Enlightenment“ it is the soul of the Bodhisattva, the person who dedicates him- or herself to helping all beings achieve total happiness. When you open to the inevitability of your infinite interconnection with other sensitive beings, you develop compassion. You learn to feel empathy for them, to love them, to want their happiness. You want to keep them from suffering, and you do so just as if they were a part of you. You don‘t think your behavior makes you special. You don‘t congratulate yourself for helping others, just as you wouldn't congratulate yourself for healing your own legs when you hurt it. It is natural for you to love your leg because it is one with you, and so it is natural for you to love others. You would certainly never harm another being. As the great Buddhist adept Shantideva (eighth-century Indian sage) wrote, „How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life! (p. 27)”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within

“Any change in your mind, positive or negative, affects all others. The wish-granting gem tree is a morphic resonance field. The energy of one contains within it the energy of all. Every action affects all other actions. Whenever you turn your mind towards the wish-granting gems, everyone else‘s mind is turned in that way, too. The planet‘s mind turns with your mind. If you let your mind go in some negative, paranoid, self-indulgent, distracted way, the planet‘s mind turns in that way. You‘re totally interconnected with everything.”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism

“The earth provides not just a little, but all. The very body and mind with which I tend the earth are themselves of the earth. I am but earth tending earth. Were the earth not to roll this garden toward the sun today, were the clouds not to gather above the sea, the waters not to flow, the soil not to brim with its billions of microorganisms, were all or any part of this to fail, I would fail as well, my body numbed to a fixed stillness, my slightest thought cancelled. This truth is so obvious that it is a wonder we can forget it so often and so easily. The fact of it defines who we are. To forget this is to forget who we are, a species suffering from amnesia that bewildered seeks its own name.”
― Lin Jensen, Bad Dog!: A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places

“All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It is increasingly difficult for social justice activists to advocate – with a clear conscience – for women, the poor, or immigrants while eating other animals or consuming the nursing milk of cattle. Animal activists have already begun to effectively expose the links of oppression across species.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“All roads in this mystical world tragically lead to death. Every personal narrative repeats the same rhetorical trope. Memento mori (‘remember that you must die’) and memento mortis (‘remember death’) are the Latin medieval designation of the theory and practice of reflecting on mortality, pondering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. The title to metaphysical poet John Donne’s poem Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris (‘Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.’) expresses this sentiment of humankind’s painful morality and the interconnectedness of humanity. Remember death – that I must die – is my faithful traveling companion.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The best way to move forward is to draw the interconnections between many data points and create possible scenarios instead of extrapolating past data to predict the future.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Evolution by nature is cruel; it is so hungry for progress that it can eat a whole species for dinner.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Sự thật là khi nào chúng ta tin có một cái ngã, rồi đem cái ngã này so sánh với cái ngã kia thì ta mới có mặc cảm, hoặc tự ti, hoặc tự tôn, hoặc bằng người. Nếu thấy được vô ngã thì ta thoát hết tất cả bệnh. Trong đạo Bụt, cách trị liệu mặc cảm là thoát được ý niệm về ngã (I am). Cái “ngã” là cái rất nguy hiểm.

Sáng nay, trong khi ngồi thiền chúng ta thực tập: Thở vào, tôi thấy sự có mặt của tất cả tổ tiên của tôi trong từng tế bào cơ thể tôi. Thở ra, tôi thấy các tổ tiên của tôi trong từng tế bào của tôi đang mỉm cười với tôi. Thực tập như vậy để thấy mình không phải là cái ngã riêng, mình chẳng qua là sự tiếp nối của tổ tiên thôi. Mình là tổ tiên của mình. Đó là một trong những cách thực tập, một phương pháp gọi là quán tưởng (visualiser), quán chiếu (le regard profond) để thấy rõ ràng ta là cái gì? Ta là một hợp thể. Ta được làm bằng tổ tiên, dòng họ, đất nước, văn hóa, cơm gạo, giáo dục. Ngoài những cái đó làm gì có cái ta riêng biệt? Mình chính là tổ tiên mình, mình chính là dân tộc mình, mình chính là nền giáo dục, nền kinh tế của đất nước mình.

Cũng giống như ngón út, nó không phải là một thực tại cách biệt với những ngón khác. Nó với ngón đeo nhẫn cũng là một, nó với ngón giữa cũng là một. Nó không có sự có mặt riêng biệt. Quán chiếu về vô ngã là phương pháp trị bệnh sâu sắc nhất, hợp lý nhất. Khi chúng ta có cái thấy về vô ngã rồi thì cái chết, cái sống, cái còn, cái mất, không có động gì tới ta được và ta không còn lo sợ nữa.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Con Sư Tử Vàng Của Thầy Pháp Tạng

“They aren’t strong on their own,” the tree explained. “They’re as fragile as my limbs. But I bury them in the soul and intertwine them with roots from other trees/ When a storm comes we lean on each other. And the rich soil holds us all together.”
― Granger Smith, Up Toward the Light