You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
HENRI NOUWENEvery 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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Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
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My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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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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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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Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
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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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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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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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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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Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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