Richard Rohr Quotes
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!
Quotes to Explore
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
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I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.
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In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.
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If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
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We are breaking down some of the artificial barriers between e-mail and Web browsing. We observed by talking with our users that there is no reason to think of IM as different from an e-mail message.
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As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.
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Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.
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There are surely many ways that media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking happens, but we can note at the most obvious level the way in which forms of resistance or violence get cast as "conflicts" that assume two sides that are fighting only against one another.
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Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.
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I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
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To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.
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We didn't know when to stop. It was like painting. We got it to its peak and then we thought, we've got more time, so we started throwing more paint on there.
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A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
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One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!
