Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. β¨ Henri Nouwen (2013). Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation, p.13, Image
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- This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. β¨ Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living, Hachette UK
- We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; on β¦ βΆ
- Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. β¨ Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). Spiritual F β¦ βΆ
- One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.
- The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him. β¨ Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri β¦ βΆ
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