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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
Transform
Wounds

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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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The ego hates losing – even to God.
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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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When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
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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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The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
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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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Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
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I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
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A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
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The message of falling - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world's religions, just in different languages.
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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
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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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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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God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
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Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
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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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Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.
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