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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Wholeness
People
Split
Splits
Wherever
Create
Everybody
Everything
Whole

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