Mary

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”
― Charles Schulz

“نحن نحب الحياة، لا لأننا تعودنا على الحياة، بل لأننا تعودنا على الحب”
― فريدريش نيتشه, هكذا تكلم زرادشت: كتاب للجميع ولغير أحد

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Listening in the spiritual life is much more than a psychological strategy to help others discover themselves. In the spiritual life the listener is not the ego, which would like to speak but is trained to restrain itself, but the Spirit of God within us. When we are baptised in the Spirit - that is, when we have received the Spirit of Jesus as the breath of God breathing within us - that Spirit creates in us a sacred space where the other can be received and listened to. The Spirit of Jesus prays in us and listens in us to all who come to us with their sufferings and pains.

When we dare to fully trust in the power of God's Spirit listening in us, we will see true healing occur.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith