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 NOUWENLearning 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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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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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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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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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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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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Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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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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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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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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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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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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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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