Thursday, 9 March 2017 "No Perfect Leader"
Good leaders are aware of both their strengths and weaknesses. They are not afraid to admit to the latter. They know how to find support and are humble enough to ask for it. There is no perfect leader who has all the gifts necessary for good leadership.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 220]
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Jean Vanier - L'Ache Canada's Daily Thought - Wednesday, 8 March 2017 "Growth of Community"
Wednesday, 8 March 2017 "Growth of Community"
Should the community, 'my people', be limited to those - both people in need and assistants - who live under the same roof? Doesn't it also include neighbours, people from the district, friends? As people grow in love, as their hearts become more open, and as a community in its narrow sense becomes mature, so does the reality of the community, of 'my people', get larger.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 91]
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Jean Vanier - L'Arche Canada's Daily Thought - Tuesday, 7 March 2017 "Unity in Community"
Tuesday, 7 March 2017 "Unity in Community"
Is the L'Arche community made up above all of assistants with similar motivations who freely choose to come, or is it above all the people in need who did not have this free choice but were placed? We do not want two communities - the helpers and the helped - we want one. That is the theory, but there is a tendency for the assistants to make their own community. Truly to make community with the poorest is harder and demands a certain death to self.[Jean Vanier, Community and Growth, page 91]
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