Quotes About Community

Nevins explained that the traits of a decentralized society-flexibility, shared power, ambiguity-made the Apaches immune to attacks that would have destroyed a centralized society.

If I want to live my ability to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all—the joy and the sorrow—I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.

Most spiritual practises have been developed - and, in the past, were sustained - in community. But most of us do not live in community. Although my students and friends and I share many of these practices, we are only occasionally in proximity to one another. Doing a daily practice alone is difficult. It requires not so much a heroic discipline as a deep commitment to life, a willingness to dedicate our lives to something larger than ourselves.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I'll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I'll find them.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

When you are down and out, something always turns up - usually the noses of your friends.

We come into the world alone, we die alone, we live alone. Love and friendship is the nearest thing that we can find to create the illusion that we are not totally alone

La lengua, que es siempre y últimamente la lengua materna, no se aprende en Gramáticas y diccionarios, sino en el decir de la Gente

René Dubois, "Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente"

what matters for each of us is the adequacy and truth of what we come to believe is the meaning of life—and therefore the source from which we derive our sense of identity, purpose, ethics and community.

The called-out assembly of God's people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God's call in Christ.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?

What is society but an individual?

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.

I have suffered much at the hands of human society. Forgive me if I seem overly suspicious.