Celebrate our interdependence
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Photo: © Nicole Bratt
Dear friends,
Some words of wisdom to contemplate on this day.
“Did you ever stop to think that you can’t leave for your job in the morning without being dependent upon most of the world?… Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured. It is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Christmas Sermon on Peace, 1967
“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.”
“A new origin narrative and national identity could help pave the way to a more livable society for us all. A society based on cooperation rather than competition, on the idea that all living creatures are interdependent and that humanity’s goal should be balance. Such were the values of many original Americans, deemed ‘savages.’ Similar gifts are waiting from other despised peoples and traditions. We might well start by recognizing that ‘America’ is the name of an entire hemisphere, rich in a stunning variety of histories, cultures and peoples – not just one country.”
With love,
Nicole