A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great things, that they are not going to be heroes, but simply live each day with new hope, like children, in wonderment as the sun rises and in thanksgiving as it sets. Community is only being created when they have recognized that the greatness of man is to accept his insignificance, his human condition and his earth, and to thank God for having put in a finite body the seeds of eternity which are visible in small and daily gestures of love and forgiveness. The beauty of man is in this fidelity to the wonder of each day.


— Jean Vanier

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There are high Schools named after him in Whitehorse Yukon; London Ontario; Scarborough Ontario; Collingwood Ontario; Richmond Hill Ontario; Welland Ontario and a to be constructed school in Milton Ontario. He also travels widely visiting other L'Arche communities encouraging projects for new communities and giving lectures and retreats. He stepped down from these responsibilities to spend more time counseling encouraging and accompanying people who come to live in L'Arche as assistants to those with disabilities.