"The ego hates losing – even to God." — Richard Rohr
"The ego hates losing – even to God."
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Richard Rohr
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171 Quotes by Richard Rohr
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In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has…
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Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until…
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Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.
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Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However,…
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will…
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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
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Transformed people transform people.
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A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the…
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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all…
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Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are…
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When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of…
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Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through…
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom…
— Roseanne Barr
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
— David Beckham
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too…
— Anna Benson
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are…
— Jello Biafra
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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