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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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The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he…
— Emile M. Cioran
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For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But…
— Frank Sinatra
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
— Unknown Author
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular…
— Sharon Salzberg
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write…
— Patti Smith
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All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be…
— Jean Vanier
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In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any…
— J R Ward
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Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.
— Andrea Navedo
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You want a reason to live? Look in the mirror darling. Those eyes you see can be the eyes someone can't forget…
— Irina
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