…nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
– Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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capacity-building
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how donwe hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
– bell hooks
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shoot the messenger (don’t)
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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on healing
Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility.
– Terry Pratchett
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merely
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
– Rumi
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in such a way
You must love in such a way that the person that you love feels free.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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love saves
Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
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magnify the light
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.
– James Baldwin
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act now
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
– bell hooks
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to each other
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
– Mother Teresa