Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
HENRI NOUWENLearning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
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Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
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Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
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