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" Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written. "

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" I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating. "

Richard Rohr

Differences

Men

Style

" Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels. "

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

" If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is. "

" Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point. "

Richard Rohr

Choices

Group

" Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people. "

" If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach. "

Richard Rohr

Health

Want

" 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. "

Richard Rohr

God

Change

" In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. "

" People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control. "

" The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. "

" Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another. "

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

" Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity. "

Richard Rohr

Ambiguity

Comfortable

" Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves. "

" This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything. "

" 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. "

" I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world. "

" It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy. "

" One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last! "

" God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. "

" 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. "

" I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate. "

" It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right? It's not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That's different. "

Richard Rohr

God

Run

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

" The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know. "

" Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do not work in the long run or in the deep run. We soon find ourselves separate and without wonder. "

" Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness. "

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

" When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again. "