Everything in life happens due to various causes and conditions coming together. Interdependence reveals the profound implications of this simple fact. It shows us that everything that exists is a condition that affects others, and is affected in turn, in a vast and complex web of causality. As part of that web, we ourselves are a condition that impacts those around us. That means if we change, so do others.
17th Karmapa
from the book Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society
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Further quotes from the book Interconnected:
- Outer and inner world
- Interdependent individual
- Freedom
- Knowing more is not a substitute for feeling more
- The best way to love oneself
- Gratitude
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- A main condition for our selfishness
- Inner freedom is key
- His Loneliness
- Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with
- Extending gratitude in all directions
- Limitless aspirations
- When we ignore our interdependence
- Our closest and most reliable allies
- The workings of interdependence
- An important source of closeness and love
- Webs of interdependence
- Enjoying the goodness of what you are doing