“Today I overheard an American teenager comparing her deprivation to that of our children (in Peru, South America), because her parents would only buy her a used car. There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives.”
Fitting in is changing who you are in order to be accepted. Belonging is to be accepted by never compromising your authentic self.
“In a happy family you don’t receive in proportion to your input. You receive in relation to your needs.
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another’s, that we can be free only together, that we can survive only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.”