The Raft is Not the Shore Quotes

“I've never heard of any community that failed because it lacked material resources. Communities fail because they lack imagination and spiritual contact and soul and a sense of others and staying power and courage to move together and to live together.”
― Daniel Berrigan, The Raft is Not the Shore: Conversations toward a Buddhist/Christian Awareness

“One feels less like a stranger when one returns to oneself, even in dreams.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Raft is Not the Shore: Conversations toward a Buddhist/Christian Awareness

“I think that life always is ambiguous. This we accept, the human situation being murky and conditioned by the past. But what we look for, as Camus says, is at least a world in which murder will not be legitimate. We don't look for a world in which murder will not occur, that seems unrealistic. But we don't want murder to be looked upon as virtuous and legitimate. Maybe that's a minimal definition of the kind of change we work for.”
― Daniel Berrigan, The Raft is Not the Shore: Conversations toward a Buddhist/Christian Awareness