We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.
HENRI NOUWENSolitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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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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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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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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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.
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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
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