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Life with someone else, in other words, doesn’t show me nearly as much about his or her shortcomings as it does about my own. . . .That’s how relationships sanctify me. They show me where holiness is for me. That’s how relationships develop me. They show me where growth is for me. If I’m the passive-victim type, then assertiveness may have something to do with coming to wholeness. If I’m the domineering character in every group, then a willingness to listen and to be led may be my call to life. Alone, I am what I am, but in community I have the chance to become everything I can be.

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Sister Joan D. Chittister is an American Benedictine nun, theologian, and advocate. She has written more than sixty books focusing both on monasticism and interfaith issues such as peace, justice, and equality, especially for women in church and society.

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