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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

Henri Nouwen

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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Complain Discover Interrupt Life Myself Work
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Change Forgiveness Remember Way
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
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Feeling Healing Hide Oneself
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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I Love You Life Opportunity
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”
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Call Listening Prayer Voice Yourself
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
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
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.
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Discover Effort Gift Possession Result Share Solitude Worth
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
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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Human Learning Morning Patience Wait
You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
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Kind Live Thinking Way Yourself
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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Angry Blame Choice Hate Live Loss Time Wide
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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Life Maturity Spiritual Yourself
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.
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Dare Friendship God Love Reality Yourself
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

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