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Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
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Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step....To heal is to let the Holy Spirit call me to dance, to believe again, even amid my pain, that God will orchestrate and guide my life.
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From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
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Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.
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There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.
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Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
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Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories...
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Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.
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I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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However, 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.
Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'
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Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.
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It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'
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The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
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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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O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones.
Let me find you again. Amen.
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Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
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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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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
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When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see.
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The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.
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Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.
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Born:
January 24, 1932
Died:
September 21, 1996
(aged 64)
Bio:
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian. His interests were rooted primarily in psychology, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice and community.
Known for:
The Wounded Healer (1972)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1992)
The Inner Voice of Love (1996)
Life of the Beloved (1992)
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