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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.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
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It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.
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The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.
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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 Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very pain of God.
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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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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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Every viewpoint is a view from a point.
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There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.
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Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
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The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
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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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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
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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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Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
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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 don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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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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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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