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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

Henri Nouwen

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
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
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
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space
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
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
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Alone Compassionate Courage God Help People See Sight
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
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”
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Call Listening Prayer Voice Yourself
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Day Joy Simplicity
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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God Himself Listening Open Prayer
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
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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Kind Live Thinking Way Yourself
Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you’d rather not go.
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Easy Hard Life Radical Yourself
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
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Forget Life Ourselves Tragedy Worth

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