The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.
With all the money my uncle embezzled over the years, it's no surprise he lives in a gated community. But what is amazing, however, is that he somehow managed to get his own cell.
Decide and communicate what you are for, what you support – not what you are against.
Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another
If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?
Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.
Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
The work of meaningful student involvement is not easy or instantly rewarding. It demands that the system of schooling change, and that the attitudes of students, educators, parents and community members change.
Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.
The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.
If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak two languages you're bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite sex, you can communicate.
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic “cause...
The quality of your communication shapes the quality of your life. Every cell in your being aligns with what you declare.
Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.
