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The journey never happens alone.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Journey
Alone
Happens
Never

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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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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
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After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.
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You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak not by being right, but through your mistakes.
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Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.
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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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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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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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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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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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There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
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