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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.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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Kansas
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THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
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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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What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.
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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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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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I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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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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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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The most common one-liner in the Bible is, Do not be afraid. Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.
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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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People wanted to me to describe more about what I call the container, and then describe what the second half of life feels like.
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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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Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.
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The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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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.
Richard Rohr
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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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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