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This is a beautiful short book all about prayer. The thoughts shared about praying are inspiring.
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With Open Hands
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With Open Hands , Henri Nouwen's first book on spirituality and a treasured introduction to prayer, has been a perennial favorite for over thirty years because it gently encourages an open, trusting stance toward God and offers insight to the components of silence, acceptance, hope, compassion, and prophetic criticism. Provocative questions invite reflection and self-awareness, while simple and beautiful prayers provide comfort, peace, and reassurance. With over half a million copies printed in seven languages, this spiritual classic has been reissued for a new generation with moving photography and a foreword by Sue Monk Kidd.
125 pages, Paperback
First published July 1,1977
This edition
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125 pages, Paperback
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April 1, 2006 by Ave Maria Press
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9781594710643
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1594710643
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English
About the author
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Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen (Nouen), (1932–1996) was a Dutch-born Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books on the spiritual life.
Nouwen's books are widely read today by Protestants and Catholics alike. The Wounded Healer, In the Name of Jesus, Clowning in Rome, The Life of the Beloved, and The Way of the Heart are just a few of the more widely recognized titles. After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to share his life with mentally handicapped people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada. After a long period of declining energy, which he chronicled in his final book, Sabbatical Journey, he died in September 1996 from a sudden heart attack.
His spirituality was influenced by many, notably by his friendship with Jean Vanier. At the invitation of Vanier he visited L'Arche in France, the first of over 130 communities around the world where people with developmental disabilities live and share life together with those who care for them. In 1986 Nouwen accepted the position of pastor for a L'Arche community called "Daybreak" in Canada, near Toronto. Nouwen wrote about his relationship with Adam, a core member at L'Arche Daybreak with profound developmental disabilities, in a book titled Adam: God's Beloved. Father Nouwen was a good friend of the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.
The results of a Christian Century magazine survey conducted in 2003 indicate that Nouwen's work was a first choice of authors for Catholic and mainline Protestant clergy.
One of his most famous works is Inner Voice of Love, his diary from December 1987 to June 1988 during one of his most serious bouts with clinical depression.
There is a Father Henri J. M. Nouwen Catholic Elementary School in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Nouwen's books are widely read today by Protestants and Catholics alike. The Wounded Healer, In the Name of Jesus, Clowning in Rome, The Life of the Beloved, and The Way of the Heart are just a few of the more widely recognized titles. After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to share his life with mentally handicapped people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada. After a long period of declining energy, which he chronicled in his final book, Sabbatical Journey, he died in September 1996 from a sudden heart attack.
His spirituality was influenced by many, notably by his friendship with Jean Vanier. At the invitation of Vanier he visited L'Arche in France, the first of over 130 communities around the world where people with developmental disabilities live and share life together with those who care for them. In 1986 Nouwen accepted the position of pastor for a L'Arche community called "Daybreak" in Canada, near Toronto. Nouwen wrote about his relationship with Adam, a core member at L'Arche Daybreak with profound developmental disabilities, in a book titled Adam: God's Beloved. Father Nouwen was a good friend of the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.
The results of a Christian Century magazine survey conducted in 2003 indicate that Nouwen's work was a first choice of authors for Catholic and mainline Protestant clergy.
One of his most famous works is Inner Voice of Love, his diary from December 1987 to June 1988 during one of his most serious bouts with clinical depression.
There is a Father Henri J. M. Nouwen Catholic Elementary School in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
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"لقد وجدت أن الصلاة لها علاقة بالصمت، والقبول، والرجاء، والرحمة، وأيضًا النقد"
"أن تصلي معناه، إيقاف توقعك بأن يعاملك الله بنفس الأفق الضيق الذي تكتشفه داخلك. أن تصلي يعني أن تمشي في ضوء الله الباهر وأن تقول ببساطة دون تحفظ: "أنا مجرد إنسان وأنت إلهي." عند هذه اللحظة يبدأ التحول واستعادة العلاقة الحقيقية."
"الصلاة تعني استعداد تام لترك قناعاتك، وأن تتحرك إلى ما وراء ما أنت فيه الآن. وهذا يتطلب أن تترك منزلك لتمسك بالطريق مرة مرة تلو الأخرى، لتبحث دائمًا عن أرض جديدة لنفسك وللآخرين."
يا لها من كلمات نيرة..
"أن تصلي معناه، إيقاف توقعك بأن يعاملك الله بنفس الأفق الضيق الذي تكتشفه داخلك. أن تصلي يعني أن تمشي في ضوء الله الباهر وأن تقول ببساطة دون تحفظ: "أنا مجرد إنسان وأنت إلهي." عند هذه اللحظة يبدأ التحول واستعادة العلاقة الحقيقية."
"الصلاة تعني استعداد تام لترك قناعاتك، وأن تتحرك إلى ما وراء ما أنت فيه الآن. وهذا يتطلب أن تترك منزلك لتمسك بالطريق مرة مرة تلو الأخرى، لتبحث دائمًا عن أرض جديدة لنفسك وللآخرين."
يا لها من كلمات نيرة..
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This is a remarkably unpretentious view of prayer that (for me) transforms my thinking about prayer from an accepted tradition based in spiritual hocus pocus to a thoughtful and natural aspect of life. The last chapter on "Prayer and critique" is worth a whole book on its own.
Here's a quotation from that chapter:
In the end the life of prayer is a life with open hands -- a life where we are not ashamed of our weaknesses but realize that it is more prefer us to be led by the Other than to try to hold everything in our own hands. Only within this kind of life spoken prayer make sense. Prayer in church, at table, or in school is only a witness to what we want to make of our entire lives.
Here's a quotation from that chapter:
In the end the life of prayer is a life with open hands -- a life where we are not ashamed of our weaknesses but realize that it is more prefer us to be led by the Other than to try to hold everything in our own hands. Only within this kind of life spoken prayer make sense. Prayer in church, at table, or in school is only a witness to what we want to make of our entire lives.
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The first four chapters are light and alright. But the fifth — Prayer and Revolution — is explosive, along with the following conclusion. Strong, strong, strong. After reading this, what can I do but open my hands to the Lord, confessing I am mere man and he is Love, Lord, All?
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My life would be significantly diminished without the continued influence of Henri Nouwen. While this is not my favorite of his books (that would be In The Name of Jesus), it's definitely shaped my understanding and practice of prayer.
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في الصلاة، نحن بمثابة من يسير بثبات في رحلة حج. وفي طريقنا نقابل الكثير من الناس الذين يظهرون لنا شيئاً عن الله الذي نبحث عنه. ولن نعرف يوماً بالتأكيد، هل قد وصلنا الي الله ام لا، ولكننا نعرف أن هذا الإله هو دوماً جديد، ولهذا لا يوجد داعي للخوف
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Beautiful book. Simple and profound. The retro photography in my edition from 1980 brings so much to the book. The written contents are meditative, peaceful, deep and thought provoking. The retro photographs warm my heart and bring so much life to the text.
Love this book and am so glad I picked it up!
Love this book and am so glad I picked it up!
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