When we are trying to cultivate a capacity to feel closeness to others, we do not need to create anything new. We are cultivating a latent ability, albeit one that might have been neglected or impaired during the course of our lives. There is every indication that the ability to experience genuine closeness is an innate potential of all human beings.
17th Karmapa
from the book Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society
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- Delight in positive thoughts
- The workings of interdependence
- Webs of interdependence
- A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
- Experiencing connection rather than isolation
- Touching the core of our equality
- We hold nothing back
- Bringing about real change in the world
- Opening up to the view of interconnectedness
- Self-discipline
- The power of our senses
- Naturalness
- Dismantling the walls that separate us
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- You exist in connection with others
- Extend yourself and connect
- The deeper common ground all living being share