#mutual need

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He needed her, and heaven knew she needed him too, or the life he could offer her anyway.

Mary Balogh, from Tangled

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'I know you. You need me. We need each other.'

Mary Balogh, from Tangled

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I have no words for what I need. I think it is what we need; but do we have to need something?

Alice Notley, from Certain Magical Acts

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The excluded, I believe, live certain values that we all need to discover and to live ourselves before we can become truly human. It is not just a question of performing good deeds for those who are excluded but of being open and vulnerable for them in order to receive the life that they can offer; it is to become their friends. If we start to include the disadvantaged in our lives and enter into heartfelt relationships with them, they will change things in us. They will call us to be people of mutual trust, to take time to listen and to be with each other. They will call us out from our individualism and need for power into belonging to each other and being open to others. They will break down the prejudices and protective walls that gave rise to exclusion in the first place. They will then start to affect our human organizations, revealing new ways of being and walking together.

Jean Vanier, Becoming Human, 84.