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Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
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Kansas
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To keep the middle coming back, you can't say some radically conservative or radically progressive things. That's been the bane of organized religion. It makes me wonder if Jesus' first definition of the church as two or three gathered in my name is not still the best way.
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every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
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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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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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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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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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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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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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The journey never happens alone.
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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
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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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I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.
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Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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