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Realize that everything connects to everything else.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

—Marcus Aurelius

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We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

—William James

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Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

—Dalai Lama

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But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it came to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I just knew what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can’t miss it.

—The Color Purple

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The Force is what gives a Jedi its power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.

—Obi-Wan Kenobi

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The same substance composes us—the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star—we are all one, all moving to the same end.

—P.L. Travers

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A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.

—Heraclitus

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When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

—Rachel Naomi Remen

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world.

—John Muir

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This slender blue thread,
if anything,
connects everything.

―Braided Creek

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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

—John Lennon

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Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

—John Gottman

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It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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The past is the present, isn’t it?
It’s the future too.

—Eugene O’Neill

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Poem: Please Call Me By My True Names

Poem: Hello, the Roses

Poem: Interrelationship

Thich Nhat Hanh poems

Watts Connectedness Scale

On interbeing

See the universe in a sunflower

Tendrel

On interdependent origination

Upstream

We Inter-Are

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