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Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

M. Scott Peck
Commitment, Community, Together
M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

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Community, Important, Weakness

Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

M. Scott Peck
Race, Community, Enemy
M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck
Inspirational, Peace, Community

In and through community lies the salvation of the world.

M. Scott Peck
Lying, Community, World
M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

M. Scott Peck
Agony, Community, Joy

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

M. Scott Peck
Community, Essentials, Tasks
M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.

M. Scott Peck
Fall, Community, Answers
M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.

M. Scott Peck
Moving, Community, Dubious

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