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 air we breathe
- Interdependence always works both ways
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
- Limitless aspirations
- The best way to love oneself
- Webs of interdependence
- The interdependence between us and the world
- Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with
- Self-discipline
- Freedom
- The workings of interdependence
- Viewing others through the lens of interdependence
- Inner freedom is key
- Touching the core of our equality
- The imagination to see the other as free and happy
- A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
- Opening up to the view of interconnectedness
- Bringing about real change in the world