Quotes About Interdependence

You just can't endlessly be together.' It's a disaster, no matter who you are.

Both must maintain their emotional independence in order to survive.

Sometimes what you depend on is other people being even more wacked than you are.

What bound people together was so fragile.

Mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.

I wonder what would happen if there were a United Organization of Organisms (UOO, pronounced "uh-oh"), where each species gets one vote. Would we be voted off the planet? The answer is pretty clear. When we irresponsibly exploit the Earth, disease, famine, and ecological collapse result. We face the possibility of being rejected by the biosphere as a virulent organism. But if we act as a responsible species, nature will not evict us.

Mensen kunnen helpen, binnen een rechtstreeks contact, is een van de zaken die ons het meest gelukkig maken. Zorg voor onszelf loopt via zorg voor de ander, bij uitbreiding, via zorg voor de gemeenschap.

s Morgens ben ik het liefst alleen, ik wil een paar uur voor mezelf. Later op de dag heb ik behoefte aan anderen. Een week teruggetrokken leven, in mijn eentje, doet mij erg veel deugd. Maar aan het einde van zo'n week kan ik meestal niet snel genoeg bij mijn geliefden zijn. De wankeling tussen het verlangen om samen te vallen met de ander en te verdwijnen in hem of haar enerzijds, en het verlangen naar autonomie en dus naar scheiding van hem of haar anderzijds, zit ingebakken in wie wij zijn.

Onszelf leren kennen als deel van een groter geheel, samen met anderen, zal borg staan voor een betere zelfzorg die niet los gezien kan worden van zorg voor de ander. Wellicht komt er dan ook meer ruimte voor intimiteit.

Il faut regarder la configuration ensemble pour déterminer le comportement des parties et non l'inverse.

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe.

People need each other. Our well-being is tightly tethered to the well-being of people we do not know, most of whom look nothing like ourselves. Happiness, I realized right there in breathing class, requires engagement.

If someone is giving us something, thats because were incapable of getting it for ourselves.

Everything in your body is interrelated and isolation is a myth.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.

The Tao of relational recovery involves balancing healthy independence with healthy dependence on others.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.

Machines served life, it could not be otherwise.

A human being cannot survive alone and be entirely human.