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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.

Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
Catholic Priest
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Psychologist
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
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Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.
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I choose L'Arche L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.
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The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.
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It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.
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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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It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.
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It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
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The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
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It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us.
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Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.
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We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.
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Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.
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When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.
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We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.
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Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
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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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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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