Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
Henri NouwenPraying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.
Henri NouwenThe great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
Henri Nouwen