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Book: Reaching Out
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
Frequently prison makes us think about freedom, hunger helps us to appreciate food, and war gives us words for peace. Not seldom are our visions of the future born out of the sufferings of the present and our hope for others out of our own despair. Only few "happy endings" make us happy, but often someone's careful and honest articulation of the ambiguities, uncertainties and painful conditions of life gives us new hope. The paradox is indeed that new life is born out of the pains of the old.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
We all are children and parents, students and teachers, healers and in need of care.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do is to keep distance, speak little to others and not write letters, except to ourselves.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
Those who do not run away from our pains but touch them with compassion bring healing and new strength. The paradox indeed is that the beginning of healing is in the solidarity with the pain. In
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
We will never believe that we have anything to give unless there is someone who is able to receive.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
A good host is the one who believes that his guest is carrying a promise he wants to reveal to anyone who shows genuine interest.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
When we live with a solitude of heart, we can listen with attention to the words and the worlds of others, but when we are driven by loneliness, we tend to select just those remarks and events that bring immediate satisfaction to our own craving needs. Our
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Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Reaching Out
Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
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