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• Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.

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  Self, People, Trying

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• Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

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  Song, Singing, Praise

  "Nature and the Soul" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2011.

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• Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

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  Ocean, Moving, Thinking

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.

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  Mean, Dark, Reality

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

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  Spiritual, People, Mind

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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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  Prayer, Eye, Judging

  "Richard Rohr on Praying like St. Francis". St. Anthony Messenger interview, www.franciscanmedia.org.

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• The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

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  Doe, Return, Resurrection

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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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  Jesus, Humanity, Mind

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality”, p.94, SPCK

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• There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and from a deeper abundance.

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  Moving, Fall, Drawing

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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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  Teacher, Ideas, Darkness

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• The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

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  Reality, Bears, Courageous

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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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  Strong, Mistake, Weak

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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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  Religious, Jesus, Imperfection

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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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  Real, Sacrifice, Forever

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

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• Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

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  Names, Creating, Special

  Richard Rohr (2012). “Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

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  People, Risk, Lovers

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• There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

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  Being Yourself, Who I Am, Enough

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• You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

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  Heal, Acknowledge

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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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  Creativity, Creation, Process

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• The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.

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  Love, Spiritual, Loneliness

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• Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.

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  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

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  Relationship, Forgiveness, God

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

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  Pain, Spirituality, Great Spiritual

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• Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

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  Pain, Hate, People

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• The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

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  Morning, Light, Sunflower

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