715 quotes found
“Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.”
“P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.”
“There is no inner peace found in taking care of me and mine. It is present in attending to the needs of we and ours.”
“Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. ...”
“Culture was actually humanitys attempt to extend the womb.”
“That people you dont know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them that encountering new ideas doesnt threaten you, it enriches you. (Celeste Ng)”
“There is an unseen river of communication that forever flows -- dark and powerful.”
“It used to be that parents didn't have to be home. If a neighbor so I child misbehaving, it was considered appropriate for the neighbor to intervene. The parents would be grateful when they found o...”
“With the evolution of Us came the evolution of Them.The original Them was anyone who wasnt blood related Them was pretty much everyone. Over time, as the number of people in Us got bigger, Them go...”
“A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have t...”
“...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 the...”
“Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.”
“We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.”
“Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.”
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their ne...”
“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.(pg.99, "The Body and...”
“Everyone who I called my friends, persons who I used to hang out with, these were the individuals who formed and made up the gang known as the Rebellion Raiders. So when the gang was formed I was a...”
“Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in community while fleeing from themselves are misuing it to indulge in empty talk and distraction, no matt...”
“When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.”
“We go from curiosity to a search for communion.”
