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What Does It Mean To Be Fully Human

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What Does It Mean To Be Fully Human

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

– Ben Okri –

What Does It Mean To Be Fully Human

“To be fully human is really to discover who I am … To discover who I am is to discover also the unity between my head and my heart.” Jean Vanier answers some “big questions” including “what does it mean to be fully human”– questions that are the hallmark of the Templeton Prize. Vanier is the 2015 Templeton Prize Laureate for his work with L’Arche, a revolutionary international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together as peers. “To become fully human is to let down the barriers, to open up and discover that every person is beautiful.” { read more }

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Learn more about L’Arche, founded by Jean Vanier in 1964, and which now comprises 147 communities in 35 countries on 5 continents. { more }

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