"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no rain, and there would be no flower. Without time the flower could not bloom. In fact the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence." --Thich Nhat Hanh

"When we speak of living beings, we presuppose something in common between them... Our proposition is that living beings are characterized in that, literally, they are continually self-producing. We indicate this process when we call the organization that defines them an autopoietic system... The most striking feature of an autopoietic system is that it pulls itself up by its own bootstraps and becomes distinct from its environment through its own dynamics, in such a way that both things are inseparable." – H. Maturana and F. Varela

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty." --Albert Einstein

"The same regulating forces, that have created nature in all its forms, are responsible for the structure of our psyche and also for our capacity to think." –Werner Heisenberg

"When you see the rose flowers blossoming, have you ever thought that all this color, all this softness, all this beauty was hidden somewhere in the seed? But the seed alone was not enough to become a rose, it needed the support of the whole universe - the soil, the water, the sun, the sky. Then the seed disappeared into the soil and the rose bush started growing. Now it again needs air, and water, and the earth, and the sun, and the moon. All these acting together transform the seed, which was initially almost like a dead piece of stone. Suddenly a metamorphosis occurs. These roses, these colors, this beauty, this fragrance, cannot come from the seed unless existence has them already. They all may be hidden, they may be covered in the seed. But anything that happens means it was already in existence - as a potential, as an urge, as a drive..." –Zen Masters

"To open your spiritual potential means to remove the obstacles on its path. If you remove hate, love starts flowing. You are not to create love, nobody can create love. If you were to create love then it would be impossible. Love is already in you; you just remove the hate with the power of your heart and you will see love streaming. Remove the unconsciousness with the power of your awareness, and you will see knowing arising in you. Remove the negative with the power of your mindfulness and the positive starts unfolding itself. It is almost as if a rock is blocking a tiny little stream of pure water; you remove the rock and the stream starts moving. When the rock blocking its path, it may not ever be possible for the stream to come. We are carrying many rocks within our beings - call them blocks in your energy - and those blocks have to be dissolved and removed, if you want to let the tiny little stream of your spiritual endeavour come. Then nourish and care for it with all your love and all your knowing until it becomes a mighty river hurrying to unite with the ocean..." - speaks the master to a disciple who is thirsty to know. (Vladimir Dimitrov)

"In a recursive, complexly interwoven world, whatever one does propagates outward, returns, recycles and comes back in a completely unpredictable form. We can never fully know to what results our action leads" -- S. Goerner

“Under such conditions, the 'optimal' strategy for acting ethically becomes surprisingly simple: Always do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right reasons, as far as you know it.” Vladimir Dimitrov

"...He who knows should act without attachment to the fruits of his action, having for his motive to hold people together..." - says The Celestial Song - Bhagavad Gita, written in the very beginning of the millennium that passed. If the motive is unity ("to hold people together"), then one does not need to bother about the fruits of action - they will never stop to emerge in ever growing variety.