Henri Nouwen on Distracting Voices

I came across these wise words from Henri Nouwen while reading today:

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are and waste a lot of time and energy to prove what doesn’t need to be proved…voices keep pulling us away from that soft gentle voice that speaks in the center of our being: ‘You are my beloved, on you my favor rests.'” (Here and Now, 136-7)