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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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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any…
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…
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Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to…
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We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
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