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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
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Topeka
Kansas
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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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The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
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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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Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
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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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God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
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