Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King 1 June 1966

All Life is Interrelated

Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King 1 June 1966
June 1, 1966

Dr. King expresses the transcendent and the relational eloquently:

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality . . . Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. “

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1967 Christmas Sermon on Peace

We lose track of this interconnectedness at our peril.

(from: Patheos)