Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

We belong to each other.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

We are each other's destiny.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

Everything happens through relationships.

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

No one person is an island.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.