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Book: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
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  1. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    a much deeper human darkness: the darkness of not feeling truly welcome in human existence.
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    all the good things our world has to offer are yours to enjoy. But you can enjoy them truly only when you can acknowledge them as affirmations of the truth that you are the Beloved of God.
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    One good way to listen is to listen with a sacred text: a psalm or a prayer, for instance. The Hindu spiritual writer Eknath Easwaran showed me the great value of learning a sacred text by heart and repeating it slowly in the mind, word by word, sentence by sentence. In this way, listening to the voice of love becomes not just a passive waiting, but an active attentiveness to the voice that speaks to us through the words of the Scriptures.
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  4. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.
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  5. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    For me, God is the one who calls me the Beloved, and I have a desire to express to others how I try to become more fully who I already am.
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  6. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    We often live as if our happiness depended on having. But I don't know anyone who is really happy because of what he or she has. True joy, happiness, and inner peace come from the giving of ourselves to others. A happy life is a life for others. That truth, however, is usually discovered when we are confronted with our brokenness.
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  7. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    The world is evil only when you become its slave. The world has a lot to offer-just as Egypt did for the children of Jacob-as long as you don't feel bound to obey it. The great struggle facing you is not to leave the world, to reject your ambitions and aspirations, or to despise money, prestige, or success, but to claim your spiritual truth and to live in the world as someone who doesn't belong to it.
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  8. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.
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  9. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    I am convinced that healing is often so difficult because we don't want to know the pain.
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  10. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    Yes, there is that voice, the voice that speaks from above and from within and that whispers softly or declares loudly: "You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests." It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody-unless you can demonstrate the opposite.
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  11. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    If it is true that we not only are the Beloved, but also have to become the Beloved; if it is true that we not only are children of God, but also have to become children of God; if it is true that we not only are brothers and sisters, but also have to become brothers and sisters . . . if all that is true, how then can we get a grip on this process of becoming? If the spiritual life is not simply a way of being, but also a way of becoming, what then is the nature of this becoming?
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  12. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Life of the Beloved: Spiritual

    Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices of my world telling me that my "little life" is all I have and advising me to cling to it with all my might. But when I let these voices move to the background of my life and listen to that small soft voice calling me the Beloved, I know that there is nothing to fear and that dying is the greatest act of love, the act that leads me into the eternal embrace of my God whose love is everlasting.
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