Henri Nouwen describes the receptivity of true-self living with the word hospitality. He notes that the essential movement of the soul is from hostility (the reactive false self) to the radical Christlike posture of hospitality (the receptive true self). “Hospitality, therefore, means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.”2
