“Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people – the extended family – the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.” — LammanContinue reading “The Value of the other people within my community”
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Strength in the Differences
“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” ― Ani DiFranco
Create Stable Communities
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Glory
When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word….”glory.” — M. Scott Peck
Born to Unite
“We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.”
The Warmth of Community
“It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to…the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility…and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children’s future.” —Robert F. Kennedy
Caring for Each Other — an oldie but goodie
This month I have decided to bring back an old post from 2017. This is still timely today. CARING FOR EACH OTHER I have been blessed to have experience several wonderful examples of community throughout my life so far. I grew up in a church that was a close, loving “church family.” We cared forContinue reading “Caring for Each Other — an oldie but goodie”
You can make the impossible possible
“What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.” — John Lewis Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community
We must become bigger than we have been
“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.” — Haile Selassie Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community
The Need for Connection and Community
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.” —Dean Ornish Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/community
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