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Richard Rohr OFM ist ein US-amerikanischer Franziskanerpater, Prediger und Autor spiritueller Bücher, die in viele Sprachen übersetzt und eine weltweite Verbreitung gefunden haben. Seine bekanntesten Bücher sind Der wilde Mann, das 1986 ins Deutsche übersetzt wurde, und Das Enneagramm, das er 1989 mit dem deutschen lutherischen Pfarrer Andreas Ebert schrieb und das bis 2014 über 450.000 mal verkauft wurde.Rohr war in den 1970er Jahren als junger US-amerikanischer Franziskaner-Pater eine der führenden Persönlichkeiten der charismatischen Bewegung in den USA, in der er sich für eine Erneuerung und Belebung des Christentums einsetzte. Freundschaft und religiöser Austausch verbindet ihn mit dem evangelischen Prediger und politischen Aktivisten Jim Wallis. Geistig beeinflusst hat ihn vor allem der 1968 verstorbene Trappistenmönch Thomas Merton. Quellen seiner Inspiration sind außerdem Jesus Christus, Franz von Assisi, Meister Eckhart, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Carl Gustav Jung sowie Sufi- und Zen-Traditionen. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. März 1943
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„Veränderung ist nicht das, was wir von religiösen Menschen erwarten. Sie neigen dazu, die Vergangenheit mehr zu lieben als die Gegenwart oder die Zukunft.“

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“So much is happening on earth that cannot be fixed or explained, but it can be felt and suffered. I think a Christian is one who, along with Jesus, agrees to feel, to suffer the pain of the world.”

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Quelle: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 129

“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity but to change the mind of humanity about God. It is “simple and beautiful;” as Einstein said great truth would always have to be.”

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Quelle: Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”

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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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Quelle: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

“I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.”

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Variante: Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.
Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.”

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Quelle: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

“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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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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

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Quelle: Radical Grace: Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr

“Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“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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Quelle: The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“The ego hates losing – even to God.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“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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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“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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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“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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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.”

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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence”

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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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Quelle: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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

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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.”

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“… religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”

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Quelle: Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

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

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Quelle: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

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