"Hurt drives out joy, stampedes trust, consumes our hearts and saps our every thought. Then, because we have not attended to the wounds in ourselves, we have no capacity for the pain of others. Because we ourselves have too often refused to heal, we cannot heal others. Our hurt begins to jade and block and make us paranoid. It cools us and distances us and leaves us hard of heart. Those who swallow a stone become a stone, we learn."
- Joan Chittister