Letting go of our need to be right

True liberation is letting go of our small self, letting go of our cultural biases, and letting go of our fear of loss and death. Freedom is letting go of wanting more and better things, and it is letting go of our need to control and manipulate God and others. It is even letting go of our need to know and our need to be right—which we only discover with maturity. We become free as we let go of our three primary energy centers: our need for power and control, our need for safety and security, and our need for affection and esteem.

-Richard Rohr

A Room By The Sea

"How nice it is to stand in a room by the sea, drinking Scotch whiskey, listening to familiar words, and watching the clowning of friends who love one another. It is like a reunion
of combat soldiers."
(The Saddest Pleasure. Moritz Thomsen)

Not Really Beautiful?

"She was not really beautiful, but there was a tremendous calm power behind her pleasant but ordinary features. It was an absence of hang-ups a sense of joyful acceptance, a glow of pleasure at the miracle of being alive.
ln one second she communicated to me the rare and beautiful sense of being completely human."

(The Saddest Pleasure. Moritz Thomsen)

Gods Fingerprints

Imagine what the world would be like if we treated others with inherent and equal dignity and respect, seeing the divine DNA in ourselves and everyone else too—regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality, appearance, or social class. Nothing less offers the world any lasting future.
-Richard Rohr

Only the Forgiven Forgive.

All the conflicts and contradictions of life must find a resolution in us before we can resolve anything outside ourselves. Only the forgiven can forgive, only the healed can heal, only those who stand daily in need of mercy can offer mercy to others. At first it sounds simplistic and even individualistic, but it is precisely such transformed people who can finally effect profound and long-lasting social change
-Richard Rohr 
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