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God comes to us disguised as our life.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Life
Disguised
Comes

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I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
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To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
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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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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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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
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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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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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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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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.
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Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.
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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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If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
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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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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
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