Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.
TUTU DESMONDHuman beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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