He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him …

Mother Teresa
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He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. ✨ Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). Meditations on the Way of the Cross, Burns & Oates
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