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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.

Henri Nouwen

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
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
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
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
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Alive Community Growth Heart Oneself Quality
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Change Forgiveness Remember Way
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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Community Force Hungry Institution Ourselves Rule
We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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Fall Preparation Rain See
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
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
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
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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Compassionate Human Power Weakness
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
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Hard Time Inspirational Rejection Thinking
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Feeling Healing Hide Oneself
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
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

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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