The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
HENRI NOUWENPrayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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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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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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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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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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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
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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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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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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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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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What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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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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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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