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
- The interdependence between us and the world
- Touching the core of our equality
- Freedom
- Opening up to the view of interconnectedness
- Inner freedom is key
- The deeper common ground all living being share
- A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
- Cultivating a spirit of generosity
- Bringing about real change in the world
- Thinking about the consequences of our collective actions
- The power of our senses
- You exist in connection with others
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- The air we breathe
- Limitless aspirations
- Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
- Webs of interdependence
- The best way to love oneself