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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
Happens
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Journey
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Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
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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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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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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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I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.
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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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Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.
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The ego knows itself by comparison.
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The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
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Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.
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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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God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
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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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When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
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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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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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I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary world views, or with pelvic morality as the defining issues of the Gospel? Jesus surely didn't. Jesus said to preach the gospel to all nations, which means we do not just talk to ourselve
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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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