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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Transform
Suffering
Transmit

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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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Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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God comes to us disguised as our life.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
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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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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
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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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There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
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If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.
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The message of falling - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.
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Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
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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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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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