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Often this reclaiming is an arduous task, a lifelong work because the world persists in its efforts to pull us into the darkness of self-doubt, low self-esteem, self-rejection, and depression.

-Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: spiritual living in a secular world.

As long as we allow our parents, siblings, teachers, friends and lovers to determine whether we are chosen or not, we are caught in the net of a suffocating world that accepts or rejects us according to its own agenda of effectiveness and control.

-Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: spiritual living in a secular world.

We have to dare to reclaim the truth that we are God’s chosen ones, even when our world does not choose us.

-Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: spiritual living in a secular world.

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.

- Henri Nouwen, Life of the beloved: Spiritual living in a secular world.

Not seldom,self-rejection is simply seen as the neurotic expression of an insecure person. But neurosis is often the psychic manifestation of a much deeper darkness: the darkness of not feeling truly welcome in human existence.

- Henri Nouwen, Life of the beloved: Spiritual living in a secular world.

I can only look for something that I have, to some degree, already found. How can I search for beauty and truth unless that beauty and truth are already known to me in the the depth of my heart? It seems that all of us human beings have deep inner memories of the paradise we have lost.

- Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular world.

I know that the fact that I am always searching for God, always struggling to discover the fullness of Love, always yearning for the taste of God, of Love, and of truth.

- Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular world.

“Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken.
Zechariah 9:9-10 Palm Sunday 🌿✝️

Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Happy Palm Sunday!🌿

"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are."
-Sirius Black

Smith:
only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love! You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson! You must know it by now! You can't win! It's pointless to keep fighting!

Smith:
Why, Mr. Anderson?! Why?! WHY DO YOU PERSIST?!

Neo:
Because I choose to.