I suppose you will hesitate to consider yourself a mystic or a revolutionary, but when you have eyes to see and ears to hear you will recognize them in your midst. They are sometimes undeniably evident to the point of irritation, sometimes only partially visible.
You will find them in the eyes of guerillas, young radicals, or women who cary protest signs. You will notice them in the quiet dreamers playing guitar in the corner of a coffeehouse, in the soft voies of monks, in the melancholic smile of students concentrating on their reading. You will see them in the mothers who allow their children to go their own difficult ways, in the fathers who read to their children from a strange book, in the laughter of young girls, in the indignation of young rebels, and in the determination of protestors. You will find them in your own town, in your own family, and even in the strivings of your own heart, because they are in everyone who draws strength from the vision that dawns on the skyline of our lives and leads us all to a new world.
Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
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