Our life is like a vast net connecting us to all other lives on this planet, and each part of this net is linked to all of the rest. The essence of our life is not limited within the confines of our bodies but rather is distributed across all the people and things that we are connected to. To think about our life in a way that treats it as our individual property is too limited and too small, and leads us to miss seeing its full value.
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
- Knowing more is not a substitute for feeling more
- Self-reliance
- Acting against self-serving impulses
- The interdependence between us and the world
- Noticing the collective effects of our individual actions
- Webs of interdependence
- Our closest and most reliable allies
- Interdependence at work
- His Loneliness
- Touching the core of our equality
- Collective actions and attitudes
- The deeper common ground all living being share
- Delight in positive thoughts
- Gradual change
- Interdependent individuals
- Our intimate dependence on the natural environment
- A main condition for our selfishness
- Opening up to the view of interconnectedness