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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
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Topeka
Kansas
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
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People wanted to me to describe more about what I call the container, and then describe what the second half of life feels like.
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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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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
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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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I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
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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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What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.
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Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America traditional Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.
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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 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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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
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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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The journey never happens alone.
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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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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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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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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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