Mutual Existence Quotes

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

You're my existence. I'm yours

Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.

I'm in you, you're in me.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

It's coexistence or no existence.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist