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

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.

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

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog.