Edmund Waller Quotes

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.

Everything...affects everything

I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.

Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

Creation exists only in regard to destruction. Creation is against destruction.

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences