Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies



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Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier’s belief that people with developmental disabilities 
should live in communities rather than in isolation from them 
launched an international movement - “L’Arche” - that has now 
spread to thirty countries.
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When he was just thirteen, Jean Vanier set out to become a naval officer and could have 
had a very successful career. But as a young man, he felt something greater was calling 
him. He quit the navy and began a search for meaning in his life, believing that God had a 
plan for him.
As the son of one of Canada’s governor generals, Vanier grew up with a life of privilege. 
But when he became friends with a priest in France who worked with the 
developmentally disabled, he was exposed to another world - a world where people were 
rejected, feared, or ignored because of their mental disabilities. Vanier felt God wanted 
him to do something to address this form of prejudice.
So Vanier bought an old farmhouse, named it L’Arche (French for Noah’s Ark), and 
invited two developmentally disabled men to come and live with him in a real home. 
Without knowing it, Jean Vanier had started an international movement. There are now 
more than 130 L’Arche communities in thirty countries around the world.
That didn’t happen overnight or by itself. Vanier traveled the globe, spreading his 
message that the mentally disabled would be better off living in communities instead of 
institutions - and that all of us would be better off if we shared our lives with people who 
challenge our way of thinking, and show us different perspectives.


We are all “broken” in different ways, says Vanier - meaning that we all have difficulty 
dealing with certain issues or seeing ourselves as we really are. He believes living with 
the mentally disabled helps people deal with their own issues, learn compassion, and 
become better human beings.
For more than forty years, Jean Vanier has crisscrossed the world to inspire others to 
follow his example. Besides the L’Arche communities, he has helped found other 
organizations to help people with developmental disabilities and their families through 
faith and community support, and he has written more than twenty books explaining his 
life and philosophy.
While Vanier has been honored by governments and popes, and has received countless 
awards and medals, he continues to live in the original L’Arche community in France, 
sharing his life with the disabled individuals and fellow volunteers he calls his friends.
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