Echoes

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

All things are interwoven with one another; a sacred bond unites them; there is scarcely one thing that is isolated from another. Everything is coordinated, everything works together in giving form to one universe. The world-order is a unity made up of multiplicity: God is one, pervading all things; all being is one, all law is one (namely, the common reason which all thinking persons possess) and all truth is one– if, as we believe, there can be but one path to perfection for beings that are alike in kind and reason.

Out of my experience, such as it is (and it is limited enough) one fixed conclusion dogmatically emerges, and that is this, that we with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves. ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. Just so there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother-sea or reservoir.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

There is nothing new under the sun.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Nature does not do anything in vain.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.