Quotes About Community

We need ritual because it is an expression of the fact that we recognize the difficulty of creating a different and special kind of community. A community that doesn't have a ritual cannot exist. A corporate community is not a community. It's a conglomeration of individuals in the service of an insatiable soulless entity.

To be a leader, or the helpmate of a leader, you have to first die as a person, and Mother was mourning for her approaching death as just a simple village woman.

the sweat of one person has significance only when it serves everybody.

A true community begins in the hearts of the people involved. It is not a place of distraction but a place of being.

My father finally performed the ritual thathe owed to the Earth Shrine, but the questions remain: Why do the innocent suffer from the negligence of others? Why is it that social responsibilities are inseparable from rituals? And why is it so important that every individual in a community stay in good rapport with their gods and goddesses? Here

So one of the ways to maintain a certain sense of self is to remain somewhat linked to essential traditionalism.

It's good to be strong by yourself," he murmured. "But it's even better to be strong together." Eva knew she could do it alone and that knowledge was enough.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.

To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith.

Being in and being accepted are two different things.

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoiled things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

welcome sign that shouted: "We love visitors in Sunshine, Texas! Stay for a while—we'll make you smile!" Underneath that horrible threat was the number of idiots who lived here: 403. I was already claustrophobic. I preferred big cities with their bad drivers, polluted skies, shitty attitudes, and endless cheap motel and diner options.

Es kommt in einer christlichen Gemeinschaft alles darauf an, daß jeder Einzelne ein unentbehrliches Glied einer Kette wird.

Nicht nur die Schwachen brauchen die Starken, sondern die Starken können auch nicht ohne die Schwachen sein. Die Ausschaltung der Schwachen ist der Tod der Gemeinschaft.

Eine christliche Gemeinschaft lebt aus der Fürbitte der Glieder füreinander, oder sie geht zugrunde.

Nicht der fernste Mensch ist uns das größte Geheimnis, sondern gerade der Nächste.

Ruf Gottes In der Begegnung mit Jesus Christus erfährt der Mensch den Ruf Gottes und in ihm die Berufung zum Leben in der Gemeinschaft Jesu Christi. Als Heide oder Jude, als Sklave oder Freier, als Mann oder Frau, als verheiratet oder Ehelosen trifft den Menschen der Ruf. Dort wo er gerade ist, soll er den Ruf hören und sich von ihm in Anspruch nehmen lassen.

Der Raum der Kirche ist nicht dazu da, um der Welt ein Stück ihres Bereiches streitig zu machen, sondern gerade um der Welt zu bezeugen, daß sie Welt bleibe, nämlich die von Gott geliebte und versöhnte Welt.

See those people holding hands?" he asked at the candlelight vigil outside the still-smoking Taj Hotel. "They're neither Hindus nor Muslims, but citizens of Bombay first.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

Perhaps that was the ultimate immigrant experience. Not that any one thing was steady enough to attach yourself to for the rest of your life, but that you found different ways to belong, ways not necessarily lasting, but ones that made your journey less lonely for a while. When something failed it was a signal to move on. For an immigrant there was no going back.

All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

Aren't Hindu, Sikh, Mussalman, Isai, Parsee like the spices in Panjab's masala box? Assorted?