Living interdependence is the opportunity you have been waiting for. Perhaps the most valuable opportunity it offers is the opportunity to love. We need to expand our access to the love we have within us. This requires that we put ourselves in situations that ask us and allow us to love.

17th Karmapa

from the book Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society

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• The full vividness of direct contact
• Time to act
• Recollecting kindness
• Outer and inner world
• A main condition for our selfishness
• Freedom
• Knowing more is not a substitute for feeling more
• The best way to love oneself
• Gratitude
• Focusing on our inner interdependence
• When we ignore our interdependence
• Inner freedom is key
• His Loneliness
• Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with
• Extending gratitude in all directions
• Limitless aspirations
• A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
• Our closest and most reliable allies
• The workings of interdependence
• An important source of closeness and love