Richard Rohr Quotes - Page 5

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• When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

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  Humanity, Joining, Failing

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

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  Love You, Chosen, Dies

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.56, SPCK

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• Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

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  Men, Grieving, Knows

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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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  Humble, Doe, Compassionate

  "Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways to View the Sunset" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 11, 2011.

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• When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE

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  Play, Needs, Victim

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• There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

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  Sacred, Moments, Blindness

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• Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly situated off to stage right—and happily so. What freedom there is in such truth! We are inherently important and included, yet not burdened with manufacturing or sustaining that private importance. Our dignity is given by God, and we are freed from ourselves!

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  Important, Matter, Dignity

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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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  Self, Flames, Littles

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• The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

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  Levels, Satisfaction, Patient

  "Preparing for Christmas" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

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  Opposites, Addiction, Alternatives

  "Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

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  Differences, Issues, Midlife

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• The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

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  Order, Perfection, Joy

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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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  Spiritual, Self, World Religions

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• The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

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  Spiritual, World

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• There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.

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  Fall, Games, Sides

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• A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

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  Sarcastic, People, Laughing

  Richard Rohr (2010). “On the Threshold of Transformation”, p.197, Loyola Press

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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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  Thinking, Mind, Enemy

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Transformed people transform people.

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  Wisdom, People, Transformed

  Richard Rohr (2010). “On the Threshold of Transformation”, p.375, Loyola Press

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• Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.

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  Religious, Heart, Self

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

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  Giving, Soul, Ego

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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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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  Reading, Self, Suffering

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Prayer, Mature

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• Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

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  Substitutes, Moralism, Mysticism

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• In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

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  Pain, Grieving, Soul

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• Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

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  Rocks, Self, Peaceful

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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