Henri nouwen

A wounded healer is someone who can listen to a person in pain without having to speak about his or her own wounds.. ~Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer, theologian. He is known for pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice, community. He said, "For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved."

Henri Nouwen on a skateboard. You have no idea how happy this makes me.

~ Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

The Three Big Lies according to Henri Nouwen. What are your 3 truths that follow "I am..."? ruthhovsepian.com