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To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
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Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
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When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
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It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.
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Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.
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Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.
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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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The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?
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The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.
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The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World.
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To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.
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For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
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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 immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
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Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.
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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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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.
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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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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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The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
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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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