[Oe List ...] Richard Rohr quote

[abaumbach at new.rr.com]

I love your quote. Our church women's group is also reading "Falling Upward" now, and one of my favorite quotes is:

"Jesus touched and healed anybody who desired it and asked for it, and there were no other prerequisites for his healings. Check it out yourself. Why would Jesus' love be so unconditional while he was in this world, and suddenly so conditional after death?" (p102) Our group is not finding this book an easy read, but it is full of wonderful images which I think anyone with Order experience will appreciate. Alice Baumbach

---- LAURELCG at aol.com wrote: 
> Thanks so much for this, George. Our retreat group, 11 O:E women, are all  
> reading Rohr's Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of  Life. 
> Very helpful. It uses the metaphor for the 2nd half of life  from
> The Odyssey, of Odysseus setting off again after  his return (the last 2 
> chapters of the book.) Gives me new courage to try  Kazantzakis' Odyssey again.
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> In a message dated 11/1/2011 5:27:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> geowanda at earthlink.net writes:
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> After  reading some of our responses (I'm a little late), I ran across this 
> from  Richard Rohr's daily meditation, and sent me back to our 3 day fast 
> and  scrubbing our graves.  
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> "Contemplation is not first of all about being  religious, introverted, or 
> pious—it is about being emotionally and mentally  honest! 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.
> Egoic  consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are 
> told there  is something else. At the egoic level it is all about me, my  
> preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires, and me and my group as the  
> central reference point. Most people do not even know there is another way of  
> thinking or feeling. It was religion's job to tell them about a different 
> kind  of software, and the original word for it was simply prayer. But even  
> the concept and practice of prayer became captive to the voracious needs of  
> the ego.  Even prayer became a way to get God to do what we  wanted"  
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> George  Holcombe
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> "Stay  hungry, stay foolish"  Whole Earth Catalog via Steve  Jobs
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> On Oct 31, 2011, at 10:32 AM, R Williams wrote:
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> When thinking of holding  the interior life and the exterior mission in 
> creative tension the names of  two who appear to have done and have written 
> about it are Matthew Fox and  Parker Palmer.  Randy
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