To be one, to be united is a great thing BUT to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono
Weekly Pause and Ponder
One of the greatest liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Weekly Pause and Ponder
Weekly Pause and Ponder
Weekly Pause and Ponder
…“to be” is “to be with.” Reality is “being with another” in a way open to more union and more being. Since being is existence towards another, being is relational and exists for the sake of giving. I do not exist in order that I may possess; rather I exist in order that I may give of myself for it is in giving that I am myself… Being is first a “we” before it can become an “I.”
- Ilia Delio. The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, p. 45.