Community & Growth by Jean Vanier

In every human being there is such a thirst for communion with another, a cry to be loved and understood - not judged or condemned; there is a yearning to be called forth as special and unique. But to have this communion with another involves demands: to come out of one's shell of protection, to become vulnerable in order to love and understand others, to call them forth as special and unique, to share and to give space and nourishment to them. That is where the pain and fear lie, even sometime the incapacity to love.