Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
TUTU DESMONDForgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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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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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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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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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 need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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