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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.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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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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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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