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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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Topeka
Kansas
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After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.
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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
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We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.
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Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
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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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You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak not by being right, but through your mistakes.
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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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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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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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Christ is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole Jesus piece would not make sense anymore. If he did everything for just us on this planet he wouldn't be the savior of the world.
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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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Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
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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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You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.
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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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Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
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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 great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
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Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
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Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.
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