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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
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Topeka
Kansas
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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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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s clothing. You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.
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Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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God comes to us disguised as our life.
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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
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God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
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