Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
HENRI NOUWENWe are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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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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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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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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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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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.
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You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
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Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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