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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

Henri Nouwen

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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Community Feeling Solitude Strong
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
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
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
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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Dare Form Invitation Listening Silence Spiritual Stranger Yourself
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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Close Distance Lose Silence Word
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
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
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
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Forget Life Ourselves Tragedy Worth
I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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Doubt Help Moments Myself 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
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
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
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space

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