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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
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Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
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The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.
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Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s clothing. You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.
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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 morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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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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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
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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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I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
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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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You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
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You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.
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A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.
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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
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