Hospitality is not kindness. It is openness to the unknown, trust of what frightens us, the expenditure of self on the unfamiliar, the merging of unlikes. Hospitality binds the world together.

Joan Chittister in In a High Spiritual Season by Joan Chittister

 

To Practice This Thought:
Where do you meet the Other in your daily experience? How can you welcome it?

 

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