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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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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
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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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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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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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