Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.

To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.'

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

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.