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• Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves. But that is far from the truth. In reality we all depend on each other and we have to help each other. The husband has to help his wife, the wife has to help the husband, the mother has to help her children, and the children are supposed to help the parents too, whether they want to or not.

  Gelek Rimpoche

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morality, Intimate, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.400

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• Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feelings, Perception, Sound

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• America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

  Barack Obama

  People, World, Failing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Believe, Men, Sea

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• ...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Discipline, Progress

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• ...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

  Jonathon Porritt

  Responsibility, Justice, Empathy

  Jonathon Porritt (2012). “Capitalism as If the World Matters”, p.347, Routledge

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• Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Concepts

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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• All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.

  Jim Rohn

  Men, Thinking, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 16, 2016

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• The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.

  Benjamin Barber

  Jobs, Real, War

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

  Jaron Lanier

  Sirens, Blind, Narcissist

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Vegetarian, Mutual, Dependence

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• Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

  Alan Watts

  Unity, Chaos, Duality

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.126, New World Library

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• Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

  Colin Neenan

  Life, Beauty, Vision

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• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Eye, Blood, Sea

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8554, Delphi Classics

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• Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

  Wendell Berry

  Broken, Connections, Healed

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.107, Counterpoint

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• I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Opportunity, Thinking, Talking

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• The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge to the enrichment of our own lives and the shaping of a rational and civilized world order....It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Spiritual, Educational, Order

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• In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.

  Daniel Yergin

  Country, Years, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Community, Benefits

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• We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Neighbor, Driven, Radical

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

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• Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.

  Steven Clark Rockefeller

  Tree, Way, Culture

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• The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Common Humanity, Interesting, Peaceful

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• Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.

  Dean Ornish

  Spiritual, Self, Years

  Dean Ornish (1998). “Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy”

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