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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Praise
Singing
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Nature
Never
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The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
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In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.
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Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.
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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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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations, in my opinion, don't do the first or second halves very well. We don't really give people a good container, we give them a bunch of legalisms.
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
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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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Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
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If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.
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Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.
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The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
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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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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
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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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There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.
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If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.
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