Lisa Bevill Vedder – Interbeing

Lisa Bevill Vedder – IE Center for Health, Wellbeing & Happiness. IE University.

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Interbeing by Lisa Bevill Vedder.

Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Eckhart Tolle
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have

Antonio Machado
Traveler, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
By walking, one makes the path.

African proverb
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together

Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.

Thich Nhat Hanh
If you are a poet, you will see a cloud in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there is no rain.
Without rain, the trees cannot grow. Without trees, there is no paper. Looking deeply, we see that
the cloud and the paper belong to each other. They “inter-are.”

Interbeing – We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness

Across centuries, cultures, and traditions, these voices point to a common truth. Wisdom begins with
humility. Meaning is found in the present moment. Our lives are shaped by the choices we make each
day. We travel farther when we journey together. We are remembered not for what we achieve, but for
how we make others feel. And when we look deeply, we discover that we are far less separate than we
imagine.

At the Center for Health & Well-being, we believe that flourishing emerges through this integration of self,
others, and the world around us. The good life is not a destination we reach alone. It is a path we create
together, one step, one relationship, and one moment at a time.