"To live a spiritual life we must first……" — Henri Nouwen

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to… - Henri Nouwen

"To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play."

— Henri Nouwen

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