Interrelatedness Quotes

“But you know, you really don't have to worry about whether everybody else is doing it or not. You just begin to get your own house in order. Recognizing your complete interrelatedness with all of it and with your own spiritual source changes the meaning of each act, and therefore both the reason and the way it's done.”
― Ram Dass, Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita

“The light irradiates white peaks of Annapurna marching down the sky, in the great rampart that spreads east and west for eighteen hundred miles, the Himalaya- the alaya (abode, or home) of hima (snow).Hibiscus, frangipani, bougainvillea: seen under snow peaks, these tropical blossoms become the flowers of heroic landscapes. Macaques scamper in green meadow, and a turquoise roller spins in a golden light. Drongos, rollers, barbets, and white Eqyptian vulture are the common birds, and all have close relatives in East Africa.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“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

“…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity”
― Elizabeth Cunningham, Magdalen Rising: The Beginning

“One aspect of the civil-rights struggle that receives little attention is the contribution it makes to the whole society. The Negro in winning rights for himself produces substantial benefits for the nation. Just as a doctor will occasionally reopen a wound, because a dangerous infection hovers beneath the half-healed surface, the revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place. Eventually the civil-rights movement will have contributed infinitely more to the nation than the eradication of racial injustice. It will have enlarged the concept of brotherhood to a vision of total interrelatedness.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Whatever affects one affects all indirectly.”
― John C. McDowell, The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope, and the Force

“The failure of the institutions of the people to solve basic issues is the result not only of their jealous isolation from one another but of the same mental isolationist policy concerning their objectives. They have forgotten that there is no such thing as a single problem, that all problems are interrelated, that all issues are part of a chain of human issues, and that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link.”
― Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals