30th Anniversary Edition. Henri Nouwen invites us to reflect on the tension between our desire for solitude, and the demands of contemporary life. He reminds us that it was in solitude that Jesus found the courage to follow God's will. And he shows us that fruitful love and service must spring from a living relationship with God. Beautifully written, elegantly simple, "Out of Solitude" is as fresh today as it was thirty years ago. "We want to overcome problems and adversities, and want to change at all costs. An alternative is to care for ourselves, each other, and our world." - Thomas Moore, from the Foreword.

About the Author

Henri J. M. Nouwen is one of the most popular spiritual writers of our time. He wrote more than 40 books, among them the best-selling Out of Solitude. He taught at the University of Notre Dame, as well as Yale and Harvard Universities. From 1986 until his death in 1996, he was part of the L'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto where he shared his life with people with mental disabilities.