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The ego knows itself by comparison.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Ego
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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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You surrender to love you do not accomplish love by willpower.
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When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
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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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When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
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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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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.
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Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.
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