Quotes About Interdependence

Kein Volk ist wahrhaft frei ohne die Freiheit seiner Nachbarn. Die Politiker belügen sich selbst und belügen die Bürger, sie nennen ihre Interessen Ideale, für diese Ideale, für Gold, für Land, für Erz, für Öl, für lauter tote Dinge sterben, hungern, verzweifeln die Menschen. Überall. Die Frage der Kriegsschuld verblaßt vor der Schuld des Kapitalismus.

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

We expect one person to give us what once an entire village used to provide, and we live twice as long.

If there's one thing in the world more annoying than being dependent on someone, it's when that someone constantly reminds you that you are dependent on him.

When we get overwhelmed by the larger moral implications of our work, we overlook the smaller, more imperceptible effects of our labor. Interdependence is about the little things you do. It's not just what you produce, but how you treat the people around you, who labor with you. And there is always something we can do that is positive—ALWAYS.

DISCIPLINE DOESN'T MEAN LIMITING your freedom. It's the impetus for developing a structure to your activity, which comes from taking deadly seriously—with a strong sense of humor—the truth of interdependence.

Fumbling blindly for the mystical, we miss what is holy within the mundane event of walking down a city street. Interdependence only seems like a profound truth because we don't recognize it 99% of the time. While

human beings are simply not self-sufficient. We rely on each other for work, education, sustenance, friendship, art, culture, community, and love.Yet so much of the time we scurry from place to place, task to task, moment to moment, craving isolation and feigning anonymity. This is the paradox of contemporary living.

This is perhaps the greatest lesson that interdependence has to offer us about right livelihood (and right living in general) in the twenty-first century: no person, and no profession, comes out completely clean, ever. On the other hand, no one is inherently defiled.

If we fully embrace the apparent contradiction that we are distinct from others yet interdependent with them, then we realize that in order to fully awaken ourselves, we need to heal our relationship to others.

Fear is not to be dismissed. A moment of fear is actually a message that we are in a new and unfamiliar place within the network of interdependence. Fear is the awkwardness of stepping into a new neighborhood of our mind. Dismissing it actually keeps us comfortable for even less time than a poorly made pair of expensive sneakers. But if we let it in, something new and unexpected is bound to happen.

Even if it's just a tiny flicker of awkwardness, there will always be fear, every moment, as long as there are beings who live in a network of change and interdependence. To be a being inherently implies change and interdependence ; these are the true brands of our existence. Getting connected necessarily means experiencing fear.

Scripture knows nothing of the solitary Christian. People of faith are always members of a community. Creation itself was not complete until there was community, Adam needing Eve before humanity was whole. God never works with individuals in isolation, but always with people in community.

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

When I came back, I tried to live independently. In the Marine Corps, we're taught as a team, so why would you think you're going to get out of the military and live independently and not rely on your support system around you?

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.

I think, you know, actors rely on each other all the time.

That's the part of basketball that we have to understand. You can never look at it as an individual sport. You rely on so many other people.

Each time I look at my members, I rely on them to act as a driving force that I can always lean on for support. Because we're in this together, we do rely on each other, and power through.

I hate being on my own, I rely on my friends and my family and my job to keep me occupied and to make me feel comforted and wanted and needed and all that stuff.

It's important for the team not to be relying on one player.