Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr
Richard Rohr, O.F.M.is a Franciscan friar ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. He is an internationally known inspirational speaker and has published numerous recorded talks and books, most recently Yes, And...: Daily Meditations, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, and Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.
Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.
The journey never happens alone.
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
"Christ" is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole "Jesus" piece would not make sense anymore. If he did everything for just us on this planet he wouldn't be the savior of the "world."
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.
...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
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.