From Big Think:

One aspect of modern life which I think Buddhism speaks to is the fact that we’re not very aware of the fact that we are all interconnected.  What we do in one country affects other countries.  In fact, it affects stuff going on on the other side of the globe: what we eat, you know, what kind of factory emissions we have and so forth, what cars we drive. 

Everything affects everything else.  So this was actually a teaching that Buddha gave way back when.  He explained that we exist in a web of kindness, as he put it.  Which means that everything we have comes from everybody else.  

So what Buddha encouraged us to do was actually to meditate on this, in other words, reflect on it and understand, everything we have comes from others, therefore, everyone is kind to us.  We are interlinked with everybody and therefore, they are helping us.  They are benefitting us, we are benefitting from everybody. And by its very nature, what that contemplation does is it allows us to develop a universal appreciation, finally, of all living things because animals are involved with us as well.  All living things.  A global, so to speak, consciousness or bigger than that really, a universal consciousness. 

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“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

~Albert Einstein

“In our obsessions with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quietly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

~Ronald Reagan