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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
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
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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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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
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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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Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.
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God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.
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A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
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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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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
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Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.
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I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
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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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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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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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Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
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You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak not by being right, but through your mistakes.
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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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