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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.

Henri Nouwen

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
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
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
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space
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
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
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
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
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
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Enemy Life Rejection Sacred Spiritual Voice
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
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
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Division Healing Live Love Privilege Rival World Wound
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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Life Maturity Spiritual Yourself
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

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