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Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each…
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of…
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So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who…
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Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."…
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
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He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
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The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and…
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Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
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Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need.…
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I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for…
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In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom…
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We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they…
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence…
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Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.
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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an…
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What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily…
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Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,…
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The most thankful person is the most fully human.
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The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more…
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
— Paulo Freire
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Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of…
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