"Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by……" — Henri Nouwen
"Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you."
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life…
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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…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is…
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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…
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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…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to…
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce…
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I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel…
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Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible.
— Jim Berger
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The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are…
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of…
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The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band.…
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The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once…
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I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay.…
— Kim Novak
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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of…
— Marilyn Hacker
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