“We all want to turn away from anything that reveals the failure, pain,
sickness and death beneath the brightly painted surface of our ordered lives.
Civilization is, at least in part, about pretending that things are better than
they are. We all want to be in a happy place, where everyone is nice and good
and can fend for themselves. We shun our own weakness and the weakness of
others. We refuse to listen to the cry of the needy. How easy it is to fall
into the illusion of a beautiful world when we have lost trust in our capacity
to make of our broken world a place that can become more beautiful.” ~ Jean
Vanier
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