Cultivating humility as part of our efforts to live interdependence can be enhanced by a heartfelt awareness that we are always in a state of development. Because everything arises based upon the coming together of continually shifting conditions, however much or little of a certain positive quality we have, further growth is always possible. Moreover, our positive qualities can be developed without limit. As long as we are human, we can continually keep discovering new potentials.
17th Karmapa
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Further quotes from the book Interconnected :
- An important source of closeness and love
- The imagination to see the other as free and happy
- Self-reliance
- Knowing more is not a substitute for feeling more
- The interdependence between us and the world
- Acting against self-serving impulses
- Noticing the collective effects of our individual actions
- Webs of interdependence
- Interdependence at work
- Our closest and most reliable allies
- Touching the core of our equality
- His Loneliness
- Collective actions and attitudes
- The deeper common ground all living being share
- Gradual change
- Delight in positive thoughts
- Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
- Interdependent individuals
- A main condition for our selfishness
- Opening up to the view of interconnectedness