I first read the phrase “garment of destiny” in the wonderful book Fluke, and it’s been stuck in my head ever since.

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be…
This is the inter-related structure of reality.

Martin Luther King Jr.,

From Martin Luther King’s famous letter.

From the book Fluke:

The tapestry of life is woven with a magical sort of thread, one that grows longer the more you unspool it. Every present moment is created with seemingly unrelated strands that stretch far into the distant past. Whenever you tug on one thread, you’ll always meet unexpected resistance because each is connected to every other part of the tapestry. The truth is, as Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in his letter from a Birmingham jail, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”