I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.