Richard Rohr is a contemporary mystic who writings are timeless and timely. In his book, "The Naked Now," here are some of his essential thoughts:
1. Asking something from God does not mean talking God into it. It means an awakening of the gift within ourselves.
2. Science and religion are merging from common descent of all living creatures to the star dust of all creations matter. Oneness is no longer a vague mystical notion but now a scientific fact.
3. Western religion has been telling people what to know more than how to know, telling people what to see more than how to see.
4. We see what we are ready to see.
5. Christianity believes that God and humanity can coexist in the same place!
6. God does not love us because we are good. God loves us because God is good.
7. Prayer is about changing you, not about changing God.
8. Remember this, if you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it to those around you and even to the next generation.
9. There are two great doors we dare not leave closed----suffering and love.
10. Open yourself to recognizing the great paradoxes in Jesus. Then you can begin to hold those same opposites together in yourself.
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