To be grounded is to feel so safe and loved that a person can withstand loss and change. It indicates flexibility and the ability to give-in. – JOHN MCGEE
True helpfulness starts with humbleness toward the one you want to help, and that is why I must understand that to help others is not to rule but to serve. If I cannot do this, I cannot help anyone. – […]
Tough mindedness without tenderheartedness is cold and detached, leaving one’s life in a perpetual winter devoid of the warmth of spring and the gentle heat of summer. – MARTIN LUTHER KING, JUNIOR
It’s much easier to do something about a problem, and it’s much easier to spend money on the problem than it is to think hard and well about the problem – BURTON BLATT
We bring our presence to the care-giving act – nothing more, nothing less. We bring the gifts that are inherent in us and our own vulnerabilities. – JOHN MCGEE
It is my position that integration is always preferable to segregation. I believe that, in general, people want to live with their families in ordinary communities, and that most children want to go to ordinary schools. – BURTON BLATT
We cannot kill our history. We cannot sacrifice enough people to hide the truth that the evil in our time is what [an] eminent…social psychologist…has called the ‘dark ghetto,’ and not the people who live within it. – JOHN MCKNIGHT
