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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
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When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.
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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
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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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If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.
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If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.
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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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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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The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.
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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 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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Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.
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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
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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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