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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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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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In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.
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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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When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself All is lost. I have to start all over again. This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you starte
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Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
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What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.
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Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
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Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
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So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting.
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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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Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you the beloved.
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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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In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.
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My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.
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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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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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