If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
Dorothee SolleA language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.
Dorothee SolleThe more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.
Dorothee SolleEvery acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.
Dorothee Solle