Thursday, December 08, 2005

COMMUNITY

"How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled
to hide our wounds
when we are all wounded!
Community requires the ability to expose our wounds
and weaknesses to our fellow creatures.
It also requires the ability
to be affected by the wounds of others...

But even more important
is the love that arises among us
when we share,
both ways,
our woundedness."


Source: M. Scott Peck,
"A Different Drum."
Peck died on Sunday, September 25, 2005.
He was 69.