Receptivity without confrontation leads to a bland neutrality
that serves nobody. Confrontation without receptivity leads
to an oppressive aggression which hurts everybody.
~ Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Quoted from Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (Image Books, 1966), p. 99 (This quote also appears in David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Random House, 2023), p. 259.)
David Brooks, Writer, Author, Political and Cultural Commentator
Henri J.M. Nouwen, Catholic Priest, Spiritual Writer
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