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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

Tutu Desmond

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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Flower Joy People Philosophy Yourself
Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Hope Person Possible Situation Transformation
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
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Deep Family God Yourself
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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Beginning Forgiveness Grace Person Philosophy True
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Children Protect Sex Violence
When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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Challenge Connection Philosophy Separate Togetherness Unity
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.
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Attitude Judge Lonely Negative People Philosophy Separate Yourself
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Compassion Deep Discover Empathy God Philosophy Soul Vulnerable Weak
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Children God Sorry Suffer
A person is a person through other persons.
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Deep One Liner Person Philosophy
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Love Philosophy Plant
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

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

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