Quotes About Interdependence

In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

We simply cannot get on as a society by purely individualistic methods, jealously guarding our own interests, governed by thought of self and fear of others. Progress, peace, victory--industrially, nationally, religiously, and in every sphere of life--are given to union, not to disunion.

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking.

We do the right things because it's the right thing to do. We respond to others' needs because they have those needs. Our survival depends on cooperation. [p61, paraphrased]

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

What that means is you're no longer looking for a protector or a provider but a partner on equal footing.

No practice exists in isolation.

Too much kindness towards the fox may mean doom for the rabbit.

Saying of the Prophet Women Women are the twin-halves of men.

Detto del Profeta Riflessione I Fedeli sono specchi, gli uni per gli altri.

La vida: algunas veces, el hombre sobre la montura; algunas veces, la montura sobre el hombre.

Earth as the standard by which to judge all actions transacted on our planet. From such a point of view, we all are Earth Citizens before we are a part of any group, nation, or religion. The Earth is the source of life for all forms of life. It is the common ground and primary value we pursue in our lives personally and collectively!

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

All beings are made up of LifeParticles, and ceaselessly interact and communicate on this deeper level of reality. Through this connection, all beings affect and reflect each other. Whatever we do, we do to ourselves. Whatever comes out of us comes back.

The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

Humans are not by nature solitary. They need to connect with other human beings to share dreams and fears, to lean on each other, to enhance each other.

My end will come when he is able to live without me.

Progressing means putting others before yourself and in turn, they'll put you before themselves.

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.