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.
TUTU DESMONDThe path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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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 what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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