"I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence."

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Source : Henri Nouwen (2013). “Discernment: Reading the signs of daily life”, p.54, SPCK

Henri Nouwen

#Running Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Circles Quotes

“Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.”
“We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.”
“You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.”
“Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!”
“But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.97, Hachette UK
“In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.”
“Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.”
“I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.”

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