His books include The Wounded Healer, In the Name of Jesus, Clowning in Rome, The Life of the Beloved and The Way of the Heart. After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to work with mentally challenged people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada.
”We are not what we do. We are not what we have. We are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.”
”Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we are gifts to be received and shared.”
“We are born in extreme fragility,
and we die in extreme fragility.
Throughout our lives we remain vulnerable,
and at risk of being wounded.
Each child is so vulnerable, so fragile
and without any defenses!”
Jean Vanier | Home
- - Let your conscious be your guide. (Good advice for children)
- - People that let you down are a lesson to be more discerning and careful with people in your life.
“On this clean slate, let my true function be written for me.”Lesson 65 ACIM
What worries you, masters you. John Locke
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
“It is an established opinion among some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primarily notions, characters, as it were, stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being and brings into the world with it. It would be sufficient to convince unprejudiced readers of the falseness of this supposition...
Locke, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding. 1689.
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