You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
HENRI NOUWENYou don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
HENRI NOUWENWe are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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.
HENRI NOUWENIf you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
HENRI NOUWENThe greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
HENRI NOUWENThis brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
HENRI NOUWENI feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
HENRI NOUWENIn a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
HENRI NOUWENIn our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
HENRI NOUWENOur life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
HENRI NOUWENWe are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
HENRI NOUWENCompassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
HENRI NOUWENWe cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
HENRI NOUWENDare 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 NOUWENCommunity means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
HENRI NOUWENYour life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you’d rather not go.
HENRI NOUWEN