The inner voice of love : a journey through anguish to freedom

The inner voice of love A journey through anguish to freedom

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Book - 1996

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Nouwen, Henri J. M. > Diaries.
Catholic Church > Clergy > Diaries.
Distress (Psychology)
Anxiety > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Spiritual life > Christianity.
Published
New York : Doubleday [1996]
Language
English
Main Author
Henri J. M. Nouwen (-)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xxi, 118 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780385485890
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A Suggestion to the Reader
  • Work Around Your Abyss
  • Cling to the Promise
  • Stop Being a Pleaser
  • Trust the Inner Voice
  • Cry Inward
  • Always Come Back to the Solid Place
  • Set Boundaries to Your Love
  • Give Gratuitously
  • Come Home
  • Understand the Limitations of Others
  • Trust in the Place of Unity
  • Remain Attentive to Your Best Intuitions
  • Bring Your Body Home
  • Enter the New Country
  • Keep Living Where God Is
  • Rely on Your Spiritual Guides
  • Go into the Place of Your Pain
  • Open Yourself to the First Love
  • Acknowledge Your Powerlessness
  • Seek a New Spirituality
  • Tell Your Story in Freedom
  • Find the Source of Your Loneliness
  • Keep Returning to the Road to Freedom
  • Let Jesus Transform You
  • Befriend Your Emotions
  • Follow Your Deepest Calling
  • Remain Anchored in Your Community
  • Stay with Your Pain
  • Live Patiently with the "Not Yet"
  • Keep Moving Toward Full Incarnation
  • See Yourself Truthfully
  • Receive All the Love That Comes to You
  • Stay United with the Larger Body
  • Love Deeply
  • Stand Erect in Your Sorrow
  • Let Deep Speak to Deep
  • Allow Yourself to Be Fully Received
  • Claim Your Unique Presence in Your Community
  • Accept Your Identity as a Child of God
  • Own Your Pain
  • Know Yourself as Truly Loved
  • Protect Your Innocence
  • Let Your Lion Lie Down with Your Lamb
  • Be a Real Friend
  • Trust Your Friends
  • Control Your Own Drawbridge
  • Avoid All Forms of Self-Rejection
  • Take Up Your Cross
  • Keep Trusting God's Call
  • Claim the Victory
  • Face the Enemy
  • Continue Seeking Communion
  • Separate the False Pains from the Real Pain
  • Say Often, "Lord, Have Mercy"
  • Let God Speak Through You
  • Know That You Are Welcome
  • Permit Your Pain to Become the Pain
  • Give Your Agenda to God
  • Let Others Help You Die
  • Live Your Wounds Through
  • For Now, Hide Your Treasure
  • Keep Choosing God
  • Conclusion
Review by Booklist Review

Father Nouwen died September 20, 1996, leaving this book on the brink of publication. He had hesitated to publish it, feeling it might be too personal. It consists of what he calls spiritual imperatives or commands "directed to [his] own heart" as he strove, "from December 1987 to June 1988," to get through "the most difficult period of [his] life" --the aftermath of a friendship he had found deeper than any other he had known. These imperatives are tiny essays expanding upon the themes their admonitory titles announce: "Work around Your Abyss," "Understand the Limitations of Others," "Follow Your Deepest Calling." Those who have made his several books of spiritual counsel some of the most popular and influential practical religious writing of the past 30 years will draw further comfort and spiritual sustenance from this one. --Ray Olson

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Nouwen, Catholic priest and popular author (The Wounded Healer, 1972), hit a six-month spiritual and mental crisis at the end of 1987 during which he "wondered whether I would be able to hold on to my life. Everything came crashing down‘my self-esteem, my energy to live and work, my sense of being loved, my hope for healing, my trust in God... everything." This book is his personal journal written during his time of anguish. For years, Nouwen felt his experience was too personal to share with the world, but on advice from friends, and in the hope that these insights would help nurture others, he published his journal entries. Although there are occasional gems here, most of these meditations are rather generic. Perhaps this generic quality may make Nouwen and his work more human to a public that has come to view him as a spiritual giant. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Library Journal Review

The late Nouwen, a popular spiritual author and Catholic priest, referred to these writings as his "secret journal," written during the darkest period of his life, from December 1987 to June 1988. He was sustained during this time of personal despair by the support of others and by the spiritual imperatives he wrote to himself, which he shares here. In these dialogs of the soul, Nouwen forges through the anguish of personal doubt with a deep sense of humility and truthfulness. His insights are grounded in the conviction that individual suffering can lead to profound healing when love of self, others, and God remain present throughout our struggling. Recommended for public and theology libraries. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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