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“We know how it feels to be in the wrong and have someone shout at us or frown and walk past, we feel dreadful. We try to be friendly but so often it turns into a strained smile as someone replies curtly and asks what we want.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All shall be well (2014)

Smile , Feeling , Past

“We have all, at one time or another, been used, or have experienced someone being unfair to us.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All shall be well (2014)

Time

“Because of the distrust that has grown from our experience, we are very careful whom we welcome. We are selective in our companions, we look suspiciously those who sit beside us in a bar and start talking to us: “is he crazy? What’s he up to?” we wonder. The city becomes a desert. With groups of friends who are nobody else’s friends. As Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet, once wrote: “The soul selects its own society, then shuts the door.””

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All shall be well (2014)

Soul

“If someone humiliates and hurts us, it is difficult to give them a second chance and turn the other cheek. They might just take another swing at us, we are not ready for that kind of abuse. Who needs it?”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All shall be well (2014)

Chance , Hurt

“Perhaps the secret of being happy is about letting go of fear, embracing energy that enriches us. Ignoring those who drain us and diminish, channeling ourselves towards goodness and positive acts”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All Will be Well (2004)

Secret , Fear , Happiness

“The deepest and most enduring thirst common to us all is the desire for love and happiness. You and I spend a great part of our lives struggling towards self-fulfilment and joy, while at the same time we are very occupied in the daily responsibilities to our families, our work, the countless little things that absorb our time.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All shall be well (2014)

Love , Family , Time , Joy

“If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All Will be Well (2004)

Tear

“It is in crisis we find ourselves, so when we are broken then this light is nearest to us.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

All Will be Well (2004)

Light

“That someday there will be no them and us. There will be no colour and no differences between us. There will be only one human family working together.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

Changing the World

Family

“People can’t eat our pity, dehydrated children can’t drink our sorrow nor can a child be educated by our anger at injustice. No one has ever been lifted out of poverty by us being overwhelmed or shocked. The only thing that ends poverty is our actions.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

Lecture on Global Health

Children , People , Education , Drink