September 12: Interdependence

WHAT IS INTERDEPENDENCE?
Why interdependence?

Video for Casady School Peace Team



Food for thought on Interdependence 


Original Global Declaration of Interdependence


Generation 9/12 project -
New York Says Thank You Foundation



Who will you make Peace with? Who will you forgive? Who will forgive you?  A shift from "I to WE"



Human Journey: Join Us! from Forgiveness Challenge on Vimeo.

Every person wants to be acknowledged and affirmed for who and what they are, a human being of infinite worth, someone with a place in the world. We can’t violate another’s dignity without violating our own. Violence, whether in words or deeds, only begets more violence.

Violence can never engender peace.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

Hurtful words may not be forgotten, but they can be forgiven. When we assault another’s humanity, we assault our own humanity.

Created For Fellowship

When we have hatred for others, we carry that hatred in our own hearts and it harms us even more, certainly, than it does them.

We are created for fellowship. We are created to form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for exclusivity or self-sufficiency but for interdependence.

We break this essential law at our own peril. We take care of our world by taking care of each other—it is as simple and as difficult as that.

With Love,  Demond Tutu  (From Forgiveness Challenge, Day 28)

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