Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

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.

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.

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.