Share Our Similarities, Celebrate Our Differences.

When We Cling, Often Forever, To Our Old Patterns Of Thinking And Behaving, We Fall To Negotiate Any Crisis, To Truly Grow Up, And To Experience The Joyful Sense Of Rebirth That Accompanies The Successful Transition Into Greater Maturity.

Community Is Another Such Phenomenon. Like Electricity, It Is Profoundly Lawful. Yet There Remains Something About It That Is Inherently Mysterious, Miraculous, Unfathomable. Thus There Is No Adequate One-sentence Definition Of Genuine Community. Community Is Something More Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Its Individual Members. What Is This "something More?" Even To Begin To Answer That, We Enter A Realm That Is Not So Much Abstract As Almost Mystical. It Is A Realm Where Words Are Never Fully Suitable And Language Itself Falls Short.

The Principal Form That The Work Of Love Takes Is Attention. When We Love Another Person We Give Him Or Her Our Attention; We Attend To That Person's Growth.

Listen To Your Child Enough And You Will Come To Realize That He Or She Is Quite An Extraordinary Individual. And The More Extraordinary You Realize Your Child To Be The More You Will Be Willing To Listen. And The More You Will Learn.

One Extends One's Limits Only By Exceeding Them.