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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 great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the…
— Seneca the Younger
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When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
— May Sarton
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The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we…
— Marianne Williamson
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I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But…
— Christopher Reeve
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If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.
— Anders Hejlsberg
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Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is…
— Alan Watts
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At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in…
— Pope Francis
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Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we…
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog…
— Jean Vanier
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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in…
— Henry Miller
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When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize…
— Henry Miller
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