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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
Transmit
Transform
Suffering

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Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
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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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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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People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
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If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.
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Every viewpoint is a view from a point.
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The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
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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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Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.
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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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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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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
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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 MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.
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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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A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.
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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
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