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• 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

  Topics in Humanity, Nature

  Tags in Connections, Interdependence, Relationships, Science

• What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

  Kevin Rudd

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interdependence, Among
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  Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interdependence

• If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Topics in Effort, Mistake, Opportunity, Service

  Tags in Interdependence, Generosity, Sharing, Problem Solving, Responsibility, Guilt, Courage

• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Interdependence, Earth, Mind

• There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe…
  At every crossing of the threads there is an individual.
  And every individual is a crystal bead.
  And every crystal bead reflects
  Not only the light from every other crystal in the net
  But also every other reflection
  Throughout the entire universe.

  Annie Adams Fields

  Topics in Influence, Spirituality

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Interdependence, Communication, Community

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Deborah Tannen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Interdependence, Communication, Community

• We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.

  Bill Clinton

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Interdependence, Responsibility, Ideas, Language, Communication

• Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

  David Bohm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interdependence, Globalism, Communication

• Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication — particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Connections, Interdependence, Globalism, Civilization, Communication

• Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Stems, Interdependence, Highest, Produces, Pass, Form, Into, Again, Dreams, Reality, Living

• 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

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Connections, Interdependence, School, Thinking

• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Topics in Friendship, Knowledge, Self Respect

  Tags in Interdependence

• To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one’s own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Interdependence, Action, Poverty, Freedom

• A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labor of other [people], living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labor of my fellow [people]. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interdependence, Simplicity

• The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

  Brenda Peterson

  Topics in Nature, Religion

  Tags in Now, Interdependence, Myth, Simplicity

• I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interdependence, Sustainability, Shrink, Environmental, Face, Universal, Believe

• The human condition is that we are individuals in relationship, and there are tensions between individuality and relatedness. A humanist spirituality is not one of complete dependence, nor of complete independence — neither condition can be defended as primary. Rather, a humanist spirituality is one of interdependence.

  Jone Johnson Lewis

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Interdependence, Humanism, Relationships

• All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

  Henry Reed

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Connections, Interdependence, Relationships

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Illusions, Interdependence, Relationships