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Original Title:	Becoming Human
ISBN:	0809139006 (ISBN13: 9780809139002)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Gordon Montador Award (1999)

Becoming Human

Jean Vanier

Paperback | Pages: 166 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 1247 Users | 136 Reviews

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Jean Vanier, a man I thoroughly respect, the founder of L'Arch, a community for the intellectually disabled. Such a thought-provoking book. I could not possibly say enough about it.
Some quotes to give you a feel for Vanier's perspective on humanity:

"I also believe that those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us. When we do include them, they add richly to our lives and add immensely to our world."

" We are all frightened by the ugly, the dirty. We all want to turn away from anything that reveals the failure, pain, sickness, and death beneath the brightly painted surface of our ordered lives. Civilization is, at least in part, about pretending that things are better than they are. We all want to be in a happy place, where everyone is nice and good and can fend for themselves. We shun our own weakness and the weakness in others. We refuse to listen to the cry of the needy. How easy it is to fall into the illusion of a beautiful world when we have lost trust in our capacity to make our broken world a place that can become more beautiful."

Love this book. Love how Vanier champions the beauty and value of every human being.

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Title	:	Becoming Human
Author	:	Jean Vanier
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 166 pages
Published	:	September 30th 1999 by Paulist Press (first published November 1st 1998)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Philosophy. Spirituality. Religion. Theology. Psychology

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Ratings: 4.25 From 1247 Users | 136 Reviews

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Jean Vanier's book about what it means to be human is full of wisdom and challenges. True freedom comes when we learn to forgive, love, and accept others. His ideas are radical: success in capitalism leads us further away from the heart and soul. An inspiring read.

Venier argues that human hearts are liberated from loneliness by acting on our innate sense of belonging by embracing the weakness of others. Loneliness drives towards closer union with God or towards fear, depression, apathy and a loss of trust. The passage of life suggests that the tension between recurring order and chaos creates insecurity and loneliness. In order itself are the seeds of change, something we can choose to help evolve by seeking truth and meaning or resist in our rigidity.

So the sense of belonging that is necessary for the opening of our hearts is born when we walk together, needing each other, and accompanying one another whether we are weak or strong, capable or not.

One of those books that makes you think ! The concept of loneliness, in this day an age, isn't a foreign one. We are more connected then ever via media, but strongly lacking in real life connection. We are starving for real connection. How much more can individual with disability, can suffer the pain of loneliness? How often they are overlooked because, we, don't know how to deal with our own discomfort? Vanier, help is to understand ourselves so we can see those around us who are too often

This book made me feel terrible about myself, as all religious texts (purposely?) do. This is not to say that my heart didnt stir to a yearning of Becoming. I just have to struggle down the despair and frustration provoked from being reminded of how base we humans are and how (any number of favorable and superior adjectives) God is. I just dont have the God gene. Anyway, favorite passage is this:To be free is to know who we are, with all that is beautiful, all the brokenness in us; it is to love

Yes it is repetitive. But this book has some fundamental ways of looking at the world and ourselves that lead our path to a humble, loving, and ultimately joy filled life. A call to action. Beautiful important message.

It only took me 4.5 months to get through this book. Lol!! Not that its difficult. Its profoundly deep and it was a vessel for God to open up my heart, mind and soul to recognized some personal demons that Ive been battling when it comes to Loneliness and forgiving myself for a part of my past. Extremely well written and extremely deep on so many levels. It reveals the ugliness and sin we all walk with when in comes to seeing everybody as equals... as human beings just like ourselves. Were all a