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The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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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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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
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The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
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The journey never happens alone.
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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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Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.
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What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.
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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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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
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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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You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.
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I think it's important to remember that by the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes, and no longer just in parts.
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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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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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