Dance of Life, The (Nouwen)
Here is one spiritual director who is proficient in the art of spiritual reading. Nouwen looks at his emotions and refuses to run from them. He sees that joy and sorrow cannot be separated; to do so is to live in a reality sealed off from the everyday. He explores the difference between loneliness and solitude. And he probes the close connection between our hostility toward others and the spiritual calling to practice hospitality. Nouwen sees gratitude as something more than a spontaneous response to the many gifts of life; it is also a discipline which can lead to a totally different orientation to everything that happens to us.
Here is one spiritual director who is proficient in the art of spiritual reading. Nouwen looks at his emotions and refuses to run from them. He sees that joy and sorrow cannot be separated; to do so is to live in a reality sealed off from the everyday. He explores the difference between loneliness and solitude. And he probes the close connection between our hostility toward others and the spiritual calling to practice hospitality. Nouwen sees gratitude as something more than a spontaneous response to the many gifts of life; it is also a discipline which can lead to a totally different orientation to everything that happens to us.
Here is one spiritual director who is proficient in the art of spiritual reading. Nouwen looks at his emotions and refuses to run from them. He sees that joy and sorrow cannot be separated; to do so is to live in a reality sealed off from the everyday. He explores the difference between loneliness and solitude. And he probes the close connection between our hostility toward others and the spiritual calling to practice hospitality. Nouwen sees gratitude as something more than a spontaneous response to the many gifts of life; it is also a discipline which can lead to a totally different orientation to everything that happens to us.