"Discipline means to prevent everything in your life……" — Henri Nouwen
"Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on."
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Henri Nouwen
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
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