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Waiting time is not wasting time. waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

-Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen

Waiting time is not wasting time. waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

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I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. that's just the nature of life.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. all spiritual life meets us within natural life. reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. in the parable of jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. the stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. there were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. i imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and i thought, i was never made to go on like that. ... if there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, i knew which i had to be.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. or waiting around for friday night or waiting perhaps for their uncle jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. everyone is just waiting.

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