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Richard Rohr Inspirational Quotes (127)

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The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
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I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.
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The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.
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There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.
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We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.
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Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
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The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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The journey never happens alone.
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When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
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The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very pain of God.
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In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
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I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
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Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
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Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
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