Irene

“The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society

“experience tells us that we can only love because we are born out of love, that we can only give because our life is a gift, and that we can only make others free because we are set free by Him whose heart is greater than ours. When we have found the anchor places for our lives in our own center, we can be free to let others enter into the space created for them and allow them to dance their own dance, sing their own song and speak their own language without fear.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
― Joseph Campbell

“what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society