Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Henri NouwenCommunity means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
Henri NouwenLiving a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.
Henri Nouwen[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.
Henri Nouwen