The L'Arche Canada Foundation in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada with Jean Vanier's Daily Thoughts for Tuesday, 27 September 2016 "L'Arche"
If at L'Arche we no longer live with the poor and the broken and celebrate life with them, we as a community will die; we will be cut off from the source of life.
They nourish us and heal our wounds daily. They call forth the light and the love within us.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 186]
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JEAN VANIER'S Daily thought
>> Image from: Portraits - L'Arche Greater Vancouver (Juan Olaechea)"Our Homes"
So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and we listen to each other, people of different class groups. Tell me your story. Where is your pain.[Jean Vanier, Address to the Business Community, April 05]
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>> Image from: Portraits - L'Arche Greater Vancouver (Juan Olaechea)"Yes, We Can Change the World"
But we can, if we want, just rise up in our place and change the world. We can choose to be sensitive to those who somewhere have been crushed and are hiding behind their walls of depression and fear.[Jean Vanier, Address to the Business Community, April 05]
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JEAN VANIER > DAILY THOUGHTS
>> Image from: L'Arche en Haïti (Éric Bellefeuille)
"Finding Happiness"
Happiness is accepting and choosing life, not just submitting grudgingly to it. It comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment of our lives; we choose life as it is, with all its joys, pain, and conflicts. Happiness is living and seeking the truth, together with others in community, and assuming responsibility for our lives and the lives of others. It is accepting the fact that we are not infinite, but can enter into a personal relationship with the Infinite, discovering the universal truth and justice that transcends all cultures: each person is unique and sacred. We are not just seeking to be what others want us to be or to conform to the expectations of family, friends, or local ways of being. We have chosen to be who we are, with all that is beautiful and broken in us. We do not slip away from life and live in a world of illusions, dreams, or nightmares. We become present to reality and to life so that we are free to live according to our personal conscience, our sacred sanctuary, where love resides within us and we see others as they are in the depth of their being. We are not letting the light of life within us be crushed, and we are not crushing it in others. On the contrary, all we want is for the light of others to shine.
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JEAN VANIER > DAILY THOUGHTS
>> Image from: L'Arche en Haïti (Éric Bellefeuille)"Finding Happiness"
Happiness is accepting and choosing life, not just submitting grudgingly to it. It comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment of our lives; we choose life as it is, with all its joys, pain, and conflicts. Happiness is living and seeking the truth, together with others in community, and assuming responsibility for our lives and the lives of others. It is accepting the fact that we are not infinite, but can enter into a personal relationship with the Infinite, discovering the universal truth and justice that transcends all cultures: each person is unique and sacred. We are not just seeking to be what others want us to be or to conform to the expectations of family, friends, or local ways of being. We have chosen to be who we are, with all that is beautiful and broken in us. We do not slip away from life and live in a world of illusions, dreams, or nightmares. We become present to reality and to life so that we are free to live according to our personal conscience, our sacred sanctuary, where love resides within us and we see others as they are in the depth of their being. We are not letting the light of life within us be crushed, and we are not crushing it in others. On the contrary, all we want is for the light of others to shine.
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