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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
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Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Transmit
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Wounds
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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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Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
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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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You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
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Someone has said, 'To be a saint is to have loved many things' —many things — the tree, the dog, the sky, the flowers, even the color of someone’s clothing. You see, when you love, you love, and love extends to everything all the time and everywhere.
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Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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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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The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
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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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You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
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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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Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.
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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.
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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.
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The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
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