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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6aaca21 | The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 616273c | Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who deeply understands our joys and pains or hopes and desires, and who is willing and able to walk with us, that is the one to whom we gladly give authority and whose 'subjects' we are willing to be... | compassion empathy leadership servant-leadership | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 2caf264 | it is precisely in this continuous process of confession and forgiveness that we are liberated from our isolation and encounter the possibility of a new disarmed way of living. Christians are peacemakers not when they apply some special skill to reconcile people with one another but when, by the confession of their brokenness, they form a community through which God's unlimited forgiveness is revealed to the world. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| feffc6a | 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. | happiness humility peace sacrifice | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| ad40fd1 | In Latin, to bless is benedicere, which means literally: saying good things. The Father wants to say, more with his touch than with his voice, good things of his children. He has no desire to punish them. They have already been punished excessively by their own inner or outer waywardness. The Father wants simply to let them know that the love they have searched for in such distorted ways has been, is, and always will be there for them. The .. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| be78946 | Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 29a4da7 | Christian leaders are called to help others affirm this great news, and to make visible in daily events the fact that behind the dirty curtain of our painful symptoms there is something great to be seen: the face of God in whose image we are shaped. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 02919e3 | Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to .. | love | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 9848b5e | If I have learned anything this week, it is that there is a contemplative way of working that is more important for me than praying, reading, or singing. Most people think that you go to the monastery to pray. Well, I prayed more this week than before but also discovered that I have not learned yet to make the work of my hands into a prayer. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| f6fada5 | Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a90edc6 | I have found over and over again how hard it is to be truly faithful to Jesus when I am alone. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| c8ce2ad | We have to live our life, not someone else's. We have to hold our own cup. We have to dare to say: "This is my life, the life that is given to me, and it is this life that I have to live, as well as I can. My life is unique. Nobody else will ever live it. I have my own history, my own family, my own body, my own character, my own friends, my own way of thinking, speaking, and acting--yes, I have my own life to live. No one else has the same.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 5aa7f52 | Your way of being present to your community may require times of absence, prayer, writing, or solitude. These too are times for your community. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 45ff4dc | Your true identity is as a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept. Once you have claimed it and settled in it, you can live in a world that gives you much joy as well as pain. You can receive the praise as well as the blame that comes to you as an opportunity for strengthening your basic identity, because the identity that makes you free is anchored beyond all human praise and blame. You belong to God, and it is as a child of.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 9e58ed5 | I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 1e5dd32 | Healing begins when, in the face of our own darkness, we recognize our helplessness and surrender our need for control... we face what is, and we ask for mercy. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| b7ec89a | Prayer, which is breathing with the Spirit of Jesus, leads us to this immense knowledge. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a8ecfe2 | 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 | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 999ee5f | God should be sought, but we cannot find God. We can only be found by him. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 6a6864f | Prayer helps us overcome the fear that is related to building our life just on the interpersonal--"What does he or she think of me? Who is my friend? Who is my enemy? Whom do I like? Dislike? Who rewards me? Punishes me? Says good things about me? Or doesn't?" We are concerned about personal identity and distinctions from others. As long as our sense of self depends on what other people think about us and say about us, and on how they respo.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a3f0baa | Drinking the cup of life is fully appropriating and internalizing our own unique existence, with all its sorrows and joys. It is not easy to do this. For a long time we might not feel capable of accepting our own life; we might keep fighting for a better or at least a different life. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| ad48be9 | 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. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 23be53d | We will never believe that we have anything to give unless there is someone who is able to receive. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| ea7564f | Today worrying means to be occupied and preoccupied with many things, while at the same time being bored, resentful, depressed, and very lonely. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 202c3d5 | 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 | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| f52b2bc | 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. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 426249d | When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 58f027a | Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. "Compulsive" is indeed the best adjective for the false self. It points to the need for ongoing and increasing affirmation. Who am I? I am the one who is liked, praised, admired, disliked, hated or despised. Whether I am a pianist, a businessman or a minister, what ma.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 0e7f240 | For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solution; if I formulate a question, I expect an answer; if I ask for guidance, I expect a response. And when it seems, increasingly, that I am talking into the dark, it is not so strange that I soon.. | talking-to-god | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 8f91142 | We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| b8f113b | When we said we were going to do something "directly," which is pronounced "dreckly," we meant that we were going to get to it sooner or later, one of these days, maybe never, and please don't ask again." -- | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 9f7d295 | We are still killing black youth because we have not yet killed white supremacy. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 9340fae | Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 4d229c7 | seeing that the lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but not as much as we pretend. In "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. writes that his worst enemies are not the members of Citizens' Councils or the Ku Klux Klan but "the white moderate" who claims to support the goals of the movement but deplores its methods of protest .. | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 335f452 | Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced."24" | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| d35c96d | The federal government was entirely complicit. When President Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act of 1935, Southern conservatives and their Northern Republican allies forced the New Deal legislation to exclude domestic workers and farmworkers from all of its employment provisions. That shielded | Timothy B. Tyson | ||
| 8e485f6 | In any case, the Christian world is not one, neither is the Islamic, nor does their combined authority speak to or for the entire world, but the world of the fanatic IS one and it cuts across all religions, ideologies and vocations. The tributaries that feed the cesspool of fanaticism may ooze from sources separated by history, clime and race, by injustices and numerous privations, but they arrive at the same destination - the zone of unque.. | terror | Wole Soyinka | |
| 44c3c11 | So, once again, back to the question - just what IS power? Is it perhaps no more than a deadly mutation of ambition, one that may or may not translate into social activity? Any fool, any moron, any psychopath can aspire to the seizure and exercise of power, and of course the more psychopathic, the more efficient: Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Sergeant Doe and the latest in the line of the unconscionably driven, our own lately departed General .. | Wole Soyinka | ||
| 565e68d | When you are uncomfortable with the tasks you are ignoring in favor of the urgency of the moment, guilt, mental angst, and frustration build up. To solve this, you need to make a conscious choice between the preplanned and the seemingly urgent at the moment. Then, renegotiate any timeline agreements with yourself. This simple and conscious mental alignment combined with the elevated perspective of the weekly review is enough to rega.. | 2 Minute Insight | ||
| 15203b0 | THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage on some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing. | David Allen | ||
| 771f7b1 | Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. | David Allen | ||
| 2895d34 | We need to transform all the "stuff" we've attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information." | David Allen | ||
| 5cebb51 | Sposobnost' byt' proizvoditel'nym priamo proportsional'na sposobnosti rasslabliat'sia. | David Allen | ||
| b36f151 | If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves." --David Allen" | Thomas Oppong |