Father Richard Rohr on The Universal Christ

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Father Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He’s a Franciscan priest in the New Mexico Provence and the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque. In this episode, Eric and Father Richard discuss his most recent book, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe. Need help with completing your goals in 2019? The One You Feed Transformation Program can help you accomplish your goals this year. But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, Father Richard Rohr and I Discuss… His book, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe What the word “Christ” means for him How God loves things by becoming them, by uniting with them That a mature Christian sees Christ in everything and everyone else The notion of God IN all things vs God IS all things How Christ is a stand-in for everything Focusing on the death of Christ and missing the life of Christ When God hides his face The difference between spiritual darkness and depression A loss of the feeling of faith in God isn’t the same thing as a loss of faith in God How distraction doesn’t make you happy God uses 3 things to draw us out of ourselves: goodness, truth and beauty Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful How God uses evil for your transformation That Jesus punishes nobody When you return in kind – like Michael and the dragon – you become the dragon The 2 virtues you need to move forward on the spiritual path: humility and honesty Father Richard Rohr Links: Center for Action and Contemplation Twitter Facebook Westin – their reason for being is to help you travel well – eat well, move well and sleep well. Welcome to wellness. Explore at Westin.com Phlur makes stunning, non-toxic perfumes, listing every ingredient and why it’s there. Visit www.phlur.com/wolf and use promo code WOLF to get 20% off first custom sampler set DoorDash – Don’t worry about dinner, let dinner come to you with DoorDash. Get $5 off your first order of $15 or more when you download the DoorDash app and enter promo code WOLF If you liked this episode with Father Richard Rohr, you might also enjoy listening to these earlier interviews: Richard Rohr – Part 1 (2017) Richard Rohr – Part 2 (2017) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6	There has to be emptiness. Our fullness isn't very exciting.
0:30.1	Welcome to the onenewfeed. Through our time, great thinkers have recognized the importance
0:38.0	of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:45.2	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:51.2	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:58.0	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.
1:04.0	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
1:08.8	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.
1:13.2	How they feed their good wolf.
1:28.5	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Richard Borer, a globally recognized
1:34.7	ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the
1:40.1	perennial tradition. He's a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico province and a founder of the
1:45.2	Center for Action and Contemplation. His new book is The Universal Christ. How I've forgotten
1:51.4	reality can change everything we see, hope for, and believe.
1:56.0	Hi, Father Richard. Welcome to the show. We are excited to have you on again and we are very happy
2:00.7	to be here another time at your Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque. It is lovely
2:07.2	out here and we had a lovely service that you did this morning that was really nice.
2:11.4	Good. Good to have you.
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