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• Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

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  Moon, Should, Fingers

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• We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

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  Fighting, Mirrors, Self

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

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  Pain, Giving, Suffering

  "A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer". Book by Richard Rohr, 2011.

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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 journey never happens alone.

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  Journey, Happens

  Richard Rohr, Joseph Martos (1991). “The wild man's journey: reflections on male spirituality”, Saint Anthony Messenger Press

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• The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

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  Fall, Past, Ego

  "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life". Book by Richard Rohr, 2011.

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• When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

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  Care, Take Care, Should

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• The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.

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  Talking, Goal, Empathy

  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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• Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

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  Overcoming, Way, Obstacles

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• To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

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  Maturity, Giving, Demand

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• We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

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  Buddhist, Growing Up, Ghetto

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

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  Christian, Letting Go, Doe

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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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• Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

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  Letting Go, Prayer, Willing

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps”, p.41, SPCK

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• The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

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  Practice, Criticism

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality”, p.74, SPCK

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• As you look back on a year almost ended, recall the ways in which God has been inviting you to return, again and again, to Love which is the same as returning to God

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  Years, Looks, Way

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• Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

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  Loyalty, Unconditional Love, Animal

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.124, SPCK

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

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  Mother, Father, People

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• The ego knows itself by comparison.

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  Ego, Knows, Comparison

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• My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

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  Religious, Mean, Dark

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• If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.

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  Jesus, Faces, Sides

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• A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

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  People, Helping, Listeners

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• Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

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  People, Splits, Whole

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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