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Those who love one another, or acquire strong attachments to persons and to forms of life, at the same time become liable to ruin: their love makes them hostages to misfortune and the injustice of others. Friends and lovers take great chances to help each other; and members of families willingly do the same. Once we love we are vulnerable.

- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

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here’s a quote that i heard on a video at a dreadful “sexual harassment prevention training” i attended last thursday. i think that most people misunderstood the meaning. i know this because a lot people made fun of how ridiculous this lady sounded (it didn’t help that she was a buddhist monk on a video being shown to a bunch of methodist who were barely listening).

“our greatest desire is to be naked before someone; being yourself with another person is true intimacy.”

john ortberg wrote a terrific, yet convicting, article and is definitely worth a read. thanks to zach for the link.

there is a self-righteousness in me that does not want to die. there is something inside me that is not bothered when others are excluded, that wants others to be excluded, that feels more special when i’m on the inside and somebody else is not. there was something in me — even when i was young — that enjoyed looking at the flannelgraph and thinking about how much wiser and more loved by God i was than those foolish, exclusive pharisees.