"Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related."

Interdependence, Relationship, Connection, Life, Unity

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"Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related."

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"One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you're saying something that sounds like me. You sort of take it as an accusation of piracy, a little slam at your individuality. Is it so bad that we sometimes sound like each other? The membrane is so thin between us. Is it so important for us to keep in mind which is whose... For us, doesn't each of our individualities begin right at the point where we own up to our extremely close connections and accept the inevitability of borrowing one another's jokes, talents, idiocies?"

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

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"God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life."

Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

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"Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

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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."

Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

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"I'd believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others-but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either."

Aspen Matis, American Author

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"People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality, a barrier which Buddhism calls the attachment to the false view of self.Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

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"God created a universe where each object is dependent on the other. Nobody is independent. At least, human beings are not."

Girdhar Joshi, Indian Author

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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."

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"There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

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