When we are trying to cultivate a capacity to feel closeness to others, we do not need to create anything new. We are cultivating a latent ability, albeit one that might have been neglected or impaired during the course of our lives. There is every indication that the ability to experience genuine closeness is an innate potential of all human beings.
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