Living interdependence is the opportunity you have been waiting for. Perhaps the most valuable opportunity it offers is the opportunity to love. We need to expand our access to the love we have within us. This requires that we put ourselves in situations that ask us and allow us to love.
17th Karmapa
from the book Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society
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Further quotes from the book Interconnected:
- The imagination to see the other as free and happy
- Interdependence always works both ways
- Our innate ability to connect with others
- Thinking about the consequences of our collective actions
- A greater sense of possibility
- Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
- Extend yourself and connect
- The full vividness of direct contact
- Time to act
- Recollecting kindness
- Outer and inner world
- The interdependence between us and the world
- Knowing more is not a substitute for feeling more
- The best way to love oneself
- Gratitude
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- Freedom
- His Loneliness
- Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with