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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human
love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...
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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.
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Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that
is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the
winds.
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It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and
called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
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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.
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Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- in connections
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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.
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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.
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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 feeling 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.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to
deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped. However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to
man's notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, (i.e. in his world-view) then man ceases to regard the
resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually
constituted of separately existing fragments. What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that
the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks. Rather one has to view the world in terms of universal flux of
events and processes.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
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A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.
- in connections
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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our
fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we
begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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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.
- in connections
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