The Lexicon
Oneness and the absolute
Interconnection
Interconnection is the recognition that nothing stands alone - that every being, thought, and event is woven into a vast web in which each strand touches all the others. To pull on one thread is to move the whole net. What we call a separate thing is really a knot in an endless tissue of relationships, defined entirely by what it is connected to.
Carried by 7 teachers · across 5 traditions · 5 quotes
The sages picture this as Indra's jeweled net, each jewel reflecting every other; the systems-thinkers describe it as a living wholeness in which the part contains the pattern of the whole. To awaken to interconnection is to feel responsibility and intimacy in the same breath: your smallest act ripples outward, and the life of all things flows back into you.
In their words
The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.David Bohm
All things are in all, but each is appropriately in each.Proclus
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.Martin Luther King Jr.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.Rumi
Tat tvam asi — That thou art.Chandogya Upanishad