Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.

Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

What you look for in the world influences what materializes. What you perceive in the people around you influences how they show up.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.