Richard Rohr
UNSPOKEN
Miles Adcox and Ruthie Lindsey
4.8 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unspoken, we welcome Father Richard Rohr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized spiritual teacher whose work is grounded in Christian mysticism, practices of contemplation and self-emptying, and compassion for the marginalized. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, where he also serves as academic dean of the Living School for Action and Contemplation.
Father Richard is the author of many books, including the best-sellers Falling Upward, The Naked Now, Breathing Under Water, The Divine Dance, and most recently, The Universal Christ. His work has been featured on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, Krista Tippett’s On Being, and in the New York Times. Father Rohr's unique gift for holding space for the mystical and the universal is incomparable. It's our deep privilege to be able to share this soul with you.
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| 0:00.0 | Before the show starts, several of our listeners have been curious about the work I do at OnSight. |
| 0:05.1 | So I wanted to give you a quick glimpse into what I get to be a part of. OnSight's an emotional |
| 0:09.9 | health retreat center on a beautiful 250-acre ranch just outside of Nashville. We've got some of the |
| 0:15.4 | best minds in the therapeutic space that come and create a safe space, honestly for people just |
| 0:20.0 | to reconnect to who they are |
| 0:21.4 | and who they're becoming. And if you want to learn more, you can visit onsiteworkshops.com or |
| 0:26.1 | follow us on Instagram and social as at at on-site workshops. |
| 0:30.1 | The work y'all are doing there is so important. And I feel so grateful that I've gotten to |
| 0:36.7 | experience it firsthand. |
| 0:38.7 | I really hope everyone gets to experience this sort of healing because we're all so deserving of it. |
| 0:45.9 | Thanks, my friend. |
| 0:47.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:49.2 | You have to leave the garden and get wounded. |
| 0:52.4 | So as you know, the English word innocent means unwounded. |
| 0:56.5 | You can't remain innocent. There was one poet that said, one learns one's truth at the price |
| 1:05.0 | of one's innocence. Maybe I quote that in falling upward. I don't know. I quoted it. It's one |
| 1:10.6 | learns one's truth. |
| 1:12.3 | And people who won't let go of their innocence remain very rigid. |
| 1:19.9 | Untruthful people, they don't know they're untruthful. |
| 1:22.4 | But there's just whole parts of themselves they can't embrace. |
| 1:26.0 | So whatever I was embracing at six or seven, |
| 1:29.6 | I'd tell little Dickie, that's what I was called. When I go back to Kansas, I'm not Richard, |
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