Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

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.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

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

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)