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If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
Priest
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Transmit
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Wounds

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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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You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak not by being right, but through your mistakes.
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Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
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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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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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The ego knows itself by comparison.
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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 God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
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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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The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.
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Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.
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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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Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.
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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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If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.
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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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