Interbeing Quotes:

In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Interbeing

In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.102, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Clouds, Unity, Paper, Interbeing

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

- Charles Eisenstein

source: Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

topic: Wall, Shelter, Lovers, Interbeing

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Life, Change, Mother, Interbeing, Mother Earth

If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (2017). “The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries”, p.21, Parallax Press

topic: Rain, Clouds, Tree, Interbeing, Interdependence

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

- Charles Eisenstein

topic: Stories, Nudge, Logic, Interbeing

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

- Elizabeth Moon

topic: Thinking, Roots, Community, Interbeing, Beetles

Your true home is in the here and the now.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Home, Interbeing, True Home

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: People, Listening, Suffering, Interbeing

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Buddhist, Truth, Mean, Interfaith, Interbeing

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Nature, Fall, Clouds, Interbeing, Dusk

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Nature, Animal, Body, Interbeing, Pantheism

Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.

- Nhat Hanh

source: "Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1993.

topic: Compassion, Helping, Chance, Interbeing

In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Dream, Wall, Fall, Interbeing, Dark Water