I come from that society and there is a common thread specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family and the unconditional love for one's children.
Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Life and death are one thread the same line viewed from different sides.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage but just plain physical courage.
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
There is a single thread of attitude a single direction of flow that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.