Quotes about Mutuality

Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. There is no being; there is only inter-being.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself deeply, meaningfully, with others, and I have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

Love is not based on the willingness to listen, to understand problems of others, or to tolerate their otherness. Love is based on the mutuality of the confession of our total self to each other.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.