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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.

Henri Nouwen

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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Myself Search Son Time
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
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Greatness Heart Wound 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
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
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
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Attention God Life Path Pay Yourself
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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Himself Impossible Listening Live Serious Solitude Spiritual
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
The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
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Beyond Depression Feeling Happiness Joy Life Mood Ourselves Spiritual Victim
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.
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Angel Drink Each Other Need Sorrow Strength
Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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Joy Kiss Life Moments Ourselves Sadness Time
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
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live
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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Enemy Life Rejection Sacred Spiritual Voice
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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Greatness Illusion Leadership Man Thinking

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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