“Community is the fruit borne of shared brokenness.” — M. Scott Peck
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“A time bank is a way to make a small town out of a big city.” – Tina Rosenberg
“It happened that a great fire broke out in a forest. Two men were helpless there because one was blind and another was crippled in the legs. The crippled one could not run; the blind one couldn’t see. So they formed a community. The blind man took the crippled man on his shoulders. They became one man. Separate they would have died; together they found the way out.” — Osho
“Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.” ― Greg Mortenson
“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.” ― Wendell Berry
“Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.” —David Spangler
“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don’t need a lot of money to be happy—in fact, the opposite.”―Jean Vanier
“We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course … we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing.” —Wayne Muller
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” —Virginia Burden
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”—Aldo Leopold
“True belonging is born of relationships not only to one another but to a place of shared responsibilities and benefits. We love not so much what we have acquired as what we have made and whom we have made it with.”—Robert Finch
“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth – that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community – and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.” ―Wendell Berry
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness. — Daisaku Ikeda
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