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The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
Life of the Beloved asks how one can live a spiritual life in a Western secular culture. The greatest challenge, concludes Nouwen, is to bridge the gap between secular and sacred within the self as a human being loved by God.