The most important characteristic of the Eastern world view  one could almost say the  essence of it — is the awareness of the unity and mutual interrelation of all things and events,  the experience of all phenomena in the world as  manifestations of a basic oneness. All things are seen as interdependent  and inseparable parts of this cosmic whole; as different manifestations of  the same ultimate reality.

- Fritj of Capra, The Too of Physics