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• I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Trying, Denial

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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• The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

  Richard Rohr

  Home, Men, Soul

  Richard Rohr (2010). “On the Threshold of Transformation”, p.4, Loyola Press

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• Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

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  Jesus, Revealing, Concrete

  "Creation as the Body of God" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

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• One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.

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  Angel, Doors, Bridges

  "Life on the Edge: Understanding the Prophetic Position" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

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  Dream, School, Fulfillment

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in this wine.

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  Jesus, Real, Believe

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• When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

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  Half, Firsts, Wells

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

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  Self, Years, Shadow

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

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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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  Eye, Cynical, Negative

  "Third Sunday of Advent: Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell". Fr. Richard Rohr's homily at the Center for Action and Contemplation, cac.org. December 16, 2012.

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• I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

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  Teaching, Years, Lasts

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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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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  Great Love, Our Love, Objects

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.72, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I choose the title [for my book], which was my favorite title, I felt sure there was going to be a dozen books maybe with that name already because it's so obvious to me that that's the message. I was surprised it hasn't been the title of a single book. Well, there is a Shel Silverstein children's book called Falling Upwards. But no one has chosen Falling Upward as a title and I'm very happy it's right on the cover.

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  Children, Book, Fall

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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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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  People, Half, Feels

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life. I don't think it really does.

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  Thinking, Catholic, Church

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

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  Balance, Important, Orthodoxy

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

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  Soul, Grows

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.

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  Temptation, Catholic, Ego

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

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• Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

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  Christian, Needs, Levels

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• We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.

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  Growing Up, Taken, Thinking

  Source: day1.org

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• If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

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  Years, Suffering, World

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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