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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”

Henri Nouwen

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
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 am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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Myself Search Son Time
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
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Foundation Life Patience Spiritual Time
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
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Greatness Heart Wound Yourself
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
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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Generation Result See Trust
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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Prayer Religious Spirit
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
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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Healing Health Help Offering Reach
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
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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Ability Heart Human Mindset Ourselves Thinking
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live

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