“ Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger. Dale Partridge
“ Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. Audre Lorde
“ Forgiveness is always hard, but we must always try to leave room for reasonable attempts at reconciliation to occur. Auliq Ice
“ No matter what the hatred is, preserve the possibility of peace and always have room for forgiveness. Auliq Ice
“ You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. Jeanette Winterson
“ Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in oursociety. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with theroots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. Wene… Dalai Lama XIV
“ The thing is, you cannot ask people to coexist by having one side bow their heads and rely on a solution that is only good for the other side. What you can do is stop blaming each other and engage in… Izzeldin Abuelaish
“ Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. Roger Zelazny
“ Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-'She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the… Michael Chabon
“ I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance. Joy Davidman
“ This love meditation is adapted from the Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa, a 5th century C.E. systematization of the Buddha's teaching. We begin by practicing the love meditation on ourselves ("May I"). U… Thich Nhat Hanh
“ There is a common superstition that self-respect is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations… Joan Didion
“ God wills our liberation, our exodus from Egypt. God wills our reconciliation, our return from exile. God wills our enlightenment, our seeing. God wills our forgiveness, our release from sin and guilt… Marcus J. Borg
“ We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the dea… Philip K. Dick
