Quotes About Mutuality

There is a word that is so old fashioned -- I feel compelled to dust it off just to use it in this sentence -- RECIPROCITY -- the "soul-coal" that stoked many barn raisings, harvests and roundups.

El amor recíproco

...I am so happy, I feel like a firm, rich, healthy root, Rejoicing in what is to come. How I depend on you utterly... How everything that will be, will not be of me, Nor of either of us, But of both of us.

Our goal will be to have relationships with both men and women that do not operate at the expense of the self, and to have a self that does not operate at the expense of the other.

At the simplest level, "being a self" means we can be pretty much who we are in relationships rather than what others wish, need, and expect us to be. It also means we can allow others to do the same. It means we do not participate in relationships at the expense of the "I".

He doesn't sacrifice himself for others, nor does he expect others to be sacrificed for him. He takes the third alternative —  he  finds  relationships  that  are  mutually beneficial so that no sacrifice is required.

Perhaps you met so that you could receive some information that will extend your journey here. And doesn't it follow that perhaps you have some information for him as well?

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Make men work together, show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

Exchange is creation.

What you are about to read is a book on relationship that was written in relationship.

I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

The balanced rhythm of the universe is rooted in reciprocity

it is more natural to talk about what you want than to talk about what the other person wants; and so on.

Nobody keeps score, because there's no sense in keeping track of what everyone is doing.

Sometimes me think, 'What is friend?' Then me say, 'Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.'

Friendship is a two way street not a one way road.

"One's not half of two, two are halves of one."

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.

Co-creation partnerships that prosper reject selfishness; they are all about "How can I serve you?