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The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
Catholic Priest
Presbyter
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
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The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
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The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.
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To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.
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...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.
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Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.
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While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.
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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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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.
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To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
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Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
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I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear.
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As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their right place.
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Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
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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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Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
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The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
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When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.
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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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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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