At the deepest level
At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe. Fritjof Capra
Interdependence
The new paradigm may
The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may also be called an ecological view, if the term \”ecological\” is used in a much broader and deeper sense than usual. Deep ecological awareness recognizes the fundamental interdependence of … Read more
…We now realize as
…We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I propose that there
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life. Frances Fox Piven
People may be said
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture. Felix Adler
Modern life… changes no
Modern life… changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we’re dawdling along. My idea is that we’ve got to go very much faster. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You ask why London
You ask why London has to ‘stand for’ anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I’m arguing is simply that we should take … Read more
The financial interdependence of
The financial interdependence of the world’s banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I. Dick Morris
When will we learn,
When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and … Read more
The fundamental law of
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. Desmond Tutu