Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
TUTU DESMONDLife of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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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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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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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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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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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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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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 have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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