"I am being driven forward
Into an unknown lane....
Shall I ever get there?
There where life resounds,
A clear pure note
In the silence."
~Dag Hammarskjold (as quoted by Richard Foster, Streams of Living Water)

"Meditation is the growing inner availability to the word so that the Word can guide us, can open us, can remove our fears, cna come to dwell in us. True meditation is thus letting the Word become flesh in us. It is through this incarnation of the Word in us that we enter eternal life."
~Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ

"Through the discipline of the Book, the Word of God can continue to become flesh in us. Reading the Scriptures as God's most intimate word for us is thus the realization of the incarnation in the concrete reality of our present life."
~Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ

"The discipline of the Christian disciple is not to master anything, but rather to be mastered by the Spirit."
~Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ

"To follow Christ requires the willingness and determination to let God's Spirit pervade all the corners of out minds and hearts and there make us into other Christs. Formation is transformation, and transformation means a growing conformity to the mind of Christ, who did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself."
~Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ

"Indeed, the search for spectacular glitter is an expression of doubt in God's complete and unconditional acceptance of us."
~Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ

"To be a person and to be seen, praised, liked, and accepted have become nearly the same for many. Who am I when nobody pays attention, says thanks, or recognizes my work? The more insecure, doubtful, and lonely we are, the greater our need for popularity and praise. Sadly, this hunger is never satisfied."
~Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ


"In this life, there is no finished symphony. We are built for the infinite, Grand Canyons without a bottom. Because of that we will, this side of eternity, always be lonely, restless, incomplete, still a virgin - living in the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable."
~Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing