INTERDEPENDENCE

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common basic link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
- John F Kennedy (1963)

None can usurp this height
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest.
- John Keats, Fall of Hyperion (1884)

I am Albanian by birth.
Now I am a citizen of India.
I am also a Catholic nun.
In my work, I belong to the whole world.
But in my heart, I belong to Christ.
- Mother Teresa

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.
- Thomas Merton (1915-1968)