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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
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Kansas
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It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.
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As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!
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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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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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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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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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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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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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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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Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.
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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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Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
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Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.
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A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.
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Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
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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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