Richard Rohr

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.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

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.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

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.