When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri J.M. NouwenFirst, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
Henri J.M. NouwenWe become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (...) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: love compassion attention neighbors busy love-your-neighbor
We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.
Henri J.M. NouwenA good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.
Henri J.M. NouwenOur lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: spiritual
Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: spiritual
real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: spiritual
It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
Henri J.M. NouwenYou have come to realize that you must leave it (the old country) and enter the new country, where your Beloved dwells. You know that what helped and guided you in the old country no longer works, but what else do you have to go by? You are being asked to trust that you will find what you need in the new country. That requires the death of what has become so precious to you: influence, success, yes, even affection and praise.
Henri J.M. NouwenTags: spritual inspriational
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