Community

"'If we can resolve our conflicts then some day we shall be able to live together in community.'
Could it be that we have it totally backward? And that the real dream should be:
'If we can live together in community then some day we shall be able to resolve our conflicts?'"

M. Scott Peck

"Civility is simply the qualities of being courteous, polite, and respectful - especially with regards to actions and speech."

Nancy Hunter Denney

"Communities are wise to the extent they use diversity well."

Tom Atlee

"The basic dignity of each human being is expressed in his or her capacity to be involved in a reciprocal helping exchange. Out of this compassion comes cooperation. From this cooperation comes community."

Phyllis Silverman

"We are individual designs in the fabric of life: We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric."

Tom Atlee

"Community is a safe place precisely because no one is attempting to heal or convert you, to fix you, to change you. Instead, the members accept you as you are. You are free to be you. And being so free, you are free to discard defenses, masks, disguises: free to seek your own psychological and spiritual health."

M. Scott Peck

"And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so the equally false assumption that we are not connected to each other has led to our social crisis."

Al Gore

"How we talk to each other - whether with civility or with human disregard - will determine the kind of community we have built - one with civility or one with human disregard."

Nancy Hunter Denney

"I sought my soul,
and my soul I did not see.
I sought my God,
and He alluded me.
I sought my brother,
and I found all three."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Communities do not ask, 'How can we justify taking this person in?' Instead the question is, 'Is it at all justifiable to keep this person out?'"

M. Scott Peck