Thomas Merton

“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”

Kalu Rinpoche

“We do not realize often enough that we are dependent on one another; at the simplest material level, we are all interdependent for our daily needs, and in this way we owe a debt to all beings.”

Taro Gold

“Everything, including all people, exists through relationships with other people or things.  Nothing exists in isolation or absolute independence.  No person, or thing can arise of, for, or by its own accord. Everything is interdependent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”