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| 3852e63 | Solitude is listening to the voice who calls you the beloved. It is being alone with the one who says, `You are my beloved, I want to be with you. Don't go running around, don't start to prove to everybody that you're beloved. You are already beloved'. That is what God says to us. Solitude is the place where we go in order to hear the truth about ourselves. It asks us to let go of the other ways of proving which are a lot more satisfying. T.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| e3f10c5 | Is God present or is he absent? Maybe we can say now that in the center of our sadness for his absence we can find the first signs of his presence. And that in the middle of our longings we discover the footprints of the one who has created them. It is in the faithful waiting for the loved one that we know how much he has filled our lives already. Just as the love of a mother for her son can grow while she is waiting for his return, and jus.. | jesus second-coming waiting | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 242f8a6 | In the Gospels, there are many examples of Jesus not giving a direct answer to questions put to him by his disciples and others. (For example, the mother of James and John asks whether her two sons might sit one at the right hand and the other at the left hand of Jesus in his kingdom, and Jesus responds, "Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" [Matt. 20:20-23].) He does this not because he has no patience with them but bec.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 1a2e991 | Our minds are always active. We analyze, reflect, daydream, or dream. There is not a moment during the day or night when we are not thinking. You might say our thinking is 'unceasing.' Sometimes we wish that we could stop thinking for a while; that would save us from many worries, guilt feelings, and fears. Our ability to think is our greatest gift, but it is also the source of our greatest pain. Do we have to become victims of our unceasin.. | prayer thinking | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 76b1833 | A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| c322698 | Remember, you are held safe. You are loved. You are protected. You are in communion with God and with those whom God has sent you. What is of God will last. It belongs to the eternal life. Choose it, and it will be yours. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 41de0ee | To be able to enjoy fully the many good things the world has to offer, we must be detached from them. To be detached does not mean to be indifferent or uninterested. It means to be non-possessive. Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to. A non-possessive life is a free life. But such freedom is only possible when we have a deep sense of belonging. To whom then do we belong? We belong to God, and the God to whom we b.. | detachment god non-possessive | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| c3bc95c | The many contradictions in our lives - such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely, being believers while feeling many doubts - can frustrate, irritate, and even discourage us. They make us feel that we are never fully present. Every door that opens for us makes us see how many more doors are closed. But there is another response. These same contradictions can bring us into t.. | god longing paradox | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| df28241 | Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6a124e0 | We often say, "I am not very happy. I am not content with the way my life is going. I am not really joyful or peaceful. But I don't know how things can be different, and I guess I have to be realistic and accept my life as it is." It is this mood of resignation that prevents us from actively naming our reality, articulating our experience, and moving more deeply into the life of the Spirit." | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 2dc624c | Prayer is standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart; that is, at that point of our being where there are no divisions or distinctions and where we are totally one. There God's Spirit dwells and there the great encounter takes place. There heart speaks to heart, because there we stand before the face of the Lord, all-seeing, with us. | holy-spirit prayer | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 58638a3 | As soon as I recognized the difference between the two hands of the father, a new world of meaning opened up for me. The Father is not simply a great patriarch. He is mother as well as father. He touches the son with a masculine hand and a feminine hand. He holds, and she caresses. He confirms and she consoles. He is, indeed, God, in whom both manhood and womanhood, fatherhood and motherhood, are fully present. That gentle caressing right h.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 7aff929 | Oxford was as drenched in Dixie as we were, just about as Southern a town as you would ever hope to find, which generally was a good thing, because that meant that the weather was nice, except when it was hot enough to fry pork chops on the pavement, and the food was delicious, though it would thicken the walls of your arteries and kill you deader than Stonewall Jackson, and the people were big hearted and friendly, though it was not the ha.. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| c0758c6 | What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don't understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip--even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 6b6f57d | Because if we in America have reached the point in our desperate culture where we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive and probably won't. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 073ce78 | Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States. | moral-clarity race-relations united-states | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| 683ce47 | fnsy dhth lmqtbs@ w ltq~ bdhth lm`nwy@ lkhfy@ lmf`m@ bl'Hlm lmtrf`@ `n shry'` lnsn w t`lymh w ts`t dwy'r lrw'y 'mm `ynyh w nbsTt lh khfy l'srr | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 7800f04 | For the fire consumes all but the arsonist. | Wole Soyinka | ||
| 4b38c2c | Interestingly, one of the biggest problems with most people's personal management systems is that they blend a few actionable things with a large amount of data and material that has value but no action attached. | David Allen | ||
| 63495c7 | Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | David Allen | ||
| 23bd2ba | But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important." | David Allen | ||
| 2bac5f5 | Our country's cheerleaders are wedded to the notion of American exceptionalism. But when it comes to the machinations of power, we are all too similar to other societies and ones that have come before us. There is an implacable brutality to power that is familiar throughout the world and throughout history. | David Talbot | ||
| a63226c | Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen. | David Allen | ||
| 46f261d | Resources are what he uses to do it, processes are how he does it, and priorities are why he does it. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 94d716d | disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| eb342a0 | New products succeed not because of the features and functionality they offer but because of the experiences they enable. If | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| 2234b10 | Does that mean that we should never hire or promote an inexperienced manager who had not already learned to do what needs to be done in this assignment? The answer: it depends. In a start-up company where there are no processes in place to get things done, then everything that is done must be done by individual people-resources. In this circumstance, it would be risky to draft someone with no experience to do the job-because in the absence .. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| aa32362 | Let's press ahead a little further by sketching out a few variations among short shorts: ONE THRUST OF INCIDENT. (Examples: Paz, Mishima, Shalamov, Babel, W. C. Williams.) In these short shorts the time span is extremely brief, a few hours, maybe even a few minutes: Life is grasped in symbolic compression. One might say that these short shorts constitute epiphanies (climactic moments of high grace or realization) that have been tom out o.. | short-fiction short-stories short-story | Irving Howe | |
| 4cba2b4 | You don't understand my dis-mounting. It's like climbing a mountain. Would you rather climb the mountain or have a helicopter deposit you on the top? The continual climb, the continual remounting, makes it a richer experience, and so on. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 39b796c | He Who Would Live Forever had done an instantaneous back-of-the-envelope calculation and decided that the vicinity of the Chevrolet Suburban was a better strategic alternative than anyplace anywhere near that whitish sandy road above which a gigantic terror-chattering rattlesnake now thrashed in the grip of his boss gone berserk. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| b1affbf | Like most men, Sherman was innocent of the routine salutatory techniques of the fashionable hostesses. For at least forty-five seconds every guest was the closest, dearest, jolliest, most wittily conspiratorial friend a girl ever had. Every male guest she touched on the arm (any other part of the body presented problems) and applied a little heartfelt pressure. Every guest, male or female, she looked at with a radar lock upon the eyes, as i.. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 41bdca8 | In particular, the virtues and ambitions called forth by war are unlikely to find expression in liberal democracies. There will be plenty of metaphorical wars--corporate lawyers specializing in hostile takeovers who will think of themselves as sharks or gunslingers, and bond traders who imagine, as in Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, that they are "masters of the universe." (They will believe this, however, only in bull market.. | Francis Fukuyama | ||
| 3e410d5 | There is a very important connection between the Church's worldview and the Church's hymns. If your heart and mouth are filled with songs of victory, you will tend to have an eschatology of dominion; if, instead, your songs are fearful, expressing a longing for escape-or if they are weak, childish ditties-your worldview and expectations will be escapist and childish. Historically, the basic hymnbook for the Church has been the Book of Psalm.. | David Chilton | ||
| af7f466 | If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it. | Penelope Fitzgerald | ||
| d18833b | In that way you recall, suddenly, sharply, in daylight, a trace of a dream of the previous night--but even as you recall it, it begins to fade. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| fd2e56e | her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 97b1b17 | And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9832462 | Time is the enemy of lovers. Worse even than the frank light of day. | age-difference joyce-carol-oates | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| bb81403 | Since thirteen, she'd been preparing. She wasn't beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More it was older men rather than guys her age, for some reason. [...] There were guys - older guys - she'd yearned for so frankly you could see it in her face. | age-difference joyce-carol-oates | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| a882fac | There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 450d09f | An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 7f88997 | Acting is the loneliest profession I know. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9c55b57 | People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried. | Cynthia Voigt | ||
| 181dc38 | I never said I hated the Marine Corps! I only said it was no place for a sensitive, civilized, self-respecting human being. | William Styron |