When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
Richard Rohr
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
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One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
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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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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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Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.*.. We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.
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.. Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
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.. Organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
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People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
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THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.
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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