The Way We Relate With Others --  Week 11   

Every time we cherish others we are cherishing ourselves. Our happiness depends on the happiness of others. 

So to strengthen our relationships with the people around us is one of the most direct and effective routes to a happy life. 

Whether we like it or not, we cannot get by on our own but it is easy to forget the people behind the scenes who make our existence possible. 

Whether it is the farmer who grew the seed for our bread, the engineer who brought the water for our tea, or the van driver who supplied the shop: our connections with others are endless. 

If we pursue the matter, we find that we are linked to every being on the planet, past, present and future. Our tendency to overlook or ignore these infinite connections is unrealistic and a major obstacle to happiness. There is a deep rooted inclination to see ourselves as separate individuals who have worked hard to be ‘self-sufficient’ and ‘independent’. 

The result is often isolation, loneliness, anxiety and depression. The happiest people are those who acknowledge their interconnection and who nurture warm and appreciative relationships.

ref: Compassion And Wisdom.org

Topics for discussion:  (From 16-G PDF)

1.  Many societies encourage competition rather than collaboration yet we know we simply cannot get by on our own. 

2.  In what ways do you experience the push and pull of competition and collaboration in your life? 

 .... or whatever is alive in you.  

 Words of Wisdom

“The meeting of two
personalities is like
the contact of two
chemical substances: if there
is any reaction, both are
transformed.”

~  Carl Jung  

"The Way We Relate With Others"   (review)

Every time we cherish others we are cherishing ourselves.

Our happiness depends on the happiness of others.

So to strengthen our relationships with the people around us is one of the most direct and effective routes to a happy life.

Whether we like it or not, we cannot get by on our own but it is easy to forget the people behind the scenes who make our existence possible.

Whether it is the farmer who grew the seed for our bread, the engineer who brought the water for our tea, or the van driver who supplied the shop: our connections with others are endless.

Our tendency to overlook or ignore these infinite connections is unrealistic and a major obstacle to happiness.

There is a deep rooted inclination to see ourselves as separate individuals who have worked hard to be ‘self-sufficient’ and ‘independent’.

The result is often isolation, loneliness, anxiety and depression.

The happiest people are those who acknowledge their interconnection and who nurture warm and appreciative relationships.

ref:  Compassion And Wisdom.org

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