March-April 2012 theme: RELATIONSHIP
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We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist (1920–1968)
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard, novelist (b. 1923)
When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts
as our problems and preoccupations loom large.
But when we focus on others, our world expands.
Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind
and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity
for connection — or compassionate action.
Daniel Goleman, psychologist (b. 1946)
We all grow up with the weight of history on us.
Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains
as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge
hidden in every cell of our bodies.
Shirley Abbott, magazine editor and author (b. 1934)
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust, critic and essayist (1871–1922)