One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing.

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

He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.

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

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

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

Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you can better love your brothers and sisters. Then you will find peace.