In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
TUTU DESMONDOut 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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We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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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 very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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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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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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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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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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We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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