When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

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

It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity