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There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Nothing
Enough
Franciscans
Clergymen
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If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.
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Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God
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Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
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Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.
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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
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Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
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The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
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Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.
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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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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
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To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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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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In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.
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I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
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