For me forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we 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?
No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person.
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we 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?”
“People who think nonviolence is easy don’t realize that it’s a spiritual discipline that requires a great deal of strength, growth, and purging of the self so that one can overcome almost any obstacle for the good of all without being concerned about one’s own welfare.”
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."