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The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.
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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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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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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 you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.
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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.
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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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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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I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
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God comes to you disguised as your life.
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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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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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It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.
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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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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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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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Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.
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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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Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.
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