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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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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Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
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Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope.
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Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
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That's the temptation of the devil: Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.
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...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.
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the real work of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.
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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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What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
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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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God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.
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'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
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Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.
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