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

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

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

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

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

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.