Quotes About Mutuality

I think people end up connecting somehow when they have a lot in common.

costs nothing, but works wonders for oiling the cogs of social exchange.

Each life is a history of affinities through which we find ourselves and are "defined" by others.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. John Donne, Meditation XVII

If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.

Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.

And this is the great challenge of our time, the evolutionary imperative for the masculine to see through and overcome its hubris and one-sidedness, to own its own unconscious shadow, to choose to enter into a fundamentally new relationship of mutuality with the feminine in all its forms.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

In the beginning was the relationship.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose I you phone first.

Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page.