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Jean Vanier

Jean Vanier

Birthname

Birthday September 10, 1928

Birthplace Geneva, Switzerland

Educated At Britannia Royal Naval College

Nationality Canada

Occupations Philanthropist, Philosopher

Religion Roman Catholic Church

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I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

— Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

Weakness Difficulties Sharing Experiences Learning from Others

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When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

— Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

Money Materialism poor Happiness

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My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?

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When a person can see into your soul, it’s hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable.

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I feel more helpless with you than without you.

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There’s a lot of strength in weakness.

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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

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She was too exhausted and weak from fright to tolerate weakness in anyone else.

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Deep depression is due to a problem with brain chemistry, not a problem with inner weakness.

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This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.

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Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature. I don’t blame anyone for not believing.

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I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

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Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

— Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

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Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

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and completely
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you
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at all.

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