December 2005

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. When we have the gift of seeing, of standing in the big picture and resting in God’s providence, we will know how to create church in a healthy way. [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence. … The clergy often create [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. What must be sacrificed, and it will feel like a sacrifice, is the attachment and the strange satisfaction that problem-solving gives us. Don’t you feel good when you’ve solved [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. Therefore, we are led to the conclusion that growth in the spiritual life (and this is surprising to capitalists) takes place not by acquisition of something new. It isn’t [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. The belief that God is “out there,” is the basic dualism that is tearing us all apart. That’s why we have raped the earth, why we have such poor [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. If we’re not willing to be led through our fears and anxieties, we will never see or grow. We must always move from one level to a level we [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. Even though the admonition not to fear is the most common one-liner in the Bible, our system never called fear a sin. We rewarded it, as all organizational systems [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. What is my agenda? What is my predisposition? What are my prejudices? What are my angers? I meet people in high levels of church and society who don’t appear [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. Group-think is a substitute for God-think. We believe that God is found only by our group. We then claim that identification with our group is the only way to [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. Simone Weil, the brilliant French resistor, said that “the tragedy of Christianity is that it came to see itself as replacing other religions instead of adding something to all [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. But when we have too much “I,” with too much “I have a right to,” then we necessarily move to a life of hatred, because all our rights cannot [...]

This entry is part of a series of significant thoughts from Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr. See the entry entitled Everything Belongs Reflections for more info. The private self is clearly an illusion largely created by thinking. My life is not about me. I am about life! That’s why the Bible is a social history. [...]