Dalai Lama Quotes

You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.

We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

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.

My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Happiness is not an individual matter.

It really does matter what my neighbor’s lot in life is.

We must learn for the sake of one another to make better choices guided by more holistic measures of the common good we share.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.

Nature does not compartmentalise. Its instinct is integrative and holistic.

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

What you think and do affects all other people.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.