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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.

Tutu Desmond

Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Forgiveness Good Philosophy Understand
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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Break Healing Hurt Repair Responsibility Togetherness
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Break Up Connection Joy Path Relationship Separate
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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Eyes Land Oppression Religion War
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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Deep Hurt Religion
We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Break Hard Heart Broken Philosophy
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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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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Alone God Learning Philosophy Spiritual Truth
Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Hope Person Possible Situation Transformation
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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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Good Philosophy Togetherness World Yourself
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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