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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
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To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.
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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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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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The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
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Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.
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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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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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Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.
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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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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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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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To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as two or three gathered in my name is not still the best way.
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