Quotes on Spiritual Community

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.