“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.” ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
"A wounded healer is someone who can listen to a person in pain without having to speak about his or her own wounds." ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
"Friendship has always ĥ to the core of my spiritual journey." ~Henri Nouwen from BrainyQuote
"Hospitality, therefore, means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place." ~Henri Nouwen
"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend." ~Henri Nouwen
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." ~Henri Nouwen
“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.” ~Henri Nouwen
"Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers." ~Henri Nouwen
"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure." ~Henri J.M. Noueen
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing not healing, not curing that is a friend who cares." ~Henri Nouwen
"We can be unhappy about many things, but joy can still be there...It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy...It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
"When we honestly ask which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour moment of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
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"Friendship has always ĥ to the core of my spiritual journey." ~Henri Nouwen from BrainyQuote
"Hospitality, therefore, means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place." ~Henri Nouwen
"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend." ~Henri Nouwen
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." ~Henri Nouwen
“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.” ~Henri Nouwen
"Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers." ~Henri Nouwen
"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure." ~Henri J.M. Noueen
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing not healing, not curing that is a friend who cares." ~Henri Nouwen
"We can be unhappy about many things, but joy can still be there...It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy...It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
"When we honestly ask which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour moment of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
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