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I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Henri Nouwen

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Greatness Life Popularity Power Rejection Success Trap
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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Healing Hide Question Service Wound
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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Dare Friendship God Love Reality Yourself
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
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
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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Day Hope Ourselves Sun Talk True Walk
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 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
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
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.
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Discover Effort Gift Possession Result Share Solitude Worth
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
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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Direction Fear Generosity Love Time
Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Greatness Heart Wound Yourself
We are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
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Accomplishment Admission Ourselves Production Success Vulnerable Weakness
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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Complain Discover Interrupt Life Myself Work
Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.
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Deep Eyes God Heart Place Trust Unique

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