new fortune.

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@@ -38732,3 +38732,22 @@ man: you know how to make fire and cook food.  But it doesn’t mean anything.
 You are still nobody.  That is the inspiration.
   -- Chögyam Trungpa, "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume
      One: The Individual Path of Liberation"
+~
+  Interdependence is our reality, whether we accept it or not.  In order to
+live productively within such a reality, it is better to acknowledge and work
+with interdependence, wholeheartedly and without resistance.  This is where
+love and compassion come in.  It is love that leads us to embrace our
+connectedness to others, and to participate willingly in the relations created
+by our interdependence.  Love can melt away our defenses and our painful sense
+of separation.  The warmth of friendship and love makes it easy for us to
+accept that our happiness is intimately linked to that of others.  The more
+widely we are able to love others, the happier and more content we can feel
+within the relations of interdependence that are a natural part of our life.
+  Love is possible in all our relationships because all people want happiness.
+No one wants to suffer.  This is true of the people we love.  It is also true
+of those we dislike.  We are all absolutely identical in this respect.  I
+think this universal wish for happiness is something we can easily grasp
+intellectually.  When we learn to also feel and respect this in our heart,
+love naturally flourishes within us.
+  -- The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, "The Heart is Noble: Changing the World
+     from the Inside Out"