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Henri Nouwen has 347 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
— Socrates
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Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you…
— Henri Nouwen
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Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every…
— Ignatius Loyola
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If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation;…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is…
— Virginia Woolf
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Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's…
— Jeanette Winterson
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As you breathe focus on your body parts, beginning with your scalp, your forehead and between your eyes, as you breathe out…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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