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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.

Henri Nouwen

Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Greatness Heart Wound Yourself
Your 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.
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Easy Hard Life Radical Yourself
If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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Feeling Love Problem Rejection Yourself
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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Illusion Life Property Share Violence
I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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Doubt Help Moments Myself Trust
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
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Essential Life Myself
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
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Alone Compassionate Courage God Help People See Sight
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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Dare Form Invitation Listening Silence Spiritual Stranger Yourself
Solitude 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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Fake Illusion Solitude Transformation
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Generosity Life Love Opportunity Time
Compassion 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.
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Compassionate Human Power Weakness
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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Alive Community Growth Heart Oneself Quality
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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Healing Hide Question Service Wound
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Greatness Life Popularity Power Rejection Success Trap
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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Compassionate Distinct Judgement Prevent Togetherness

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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