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A new issue of CAC's journal, Oneing, features articles on "Anger" by Richard Rohr, Barbara Brown Taylor, Joan Halifax, Barbara Holmes, Brian McLaren, Mirabai Starr, and others. Order the limited edition copy soon!

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Enjoy Richard Rohr’s homilies here or find his podcast on iTunes. Fr. Richard speaks occasionally at his local parish, Holy Family Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short sermons are recorded and made available by the CAC.

God’s eternal mystery cannot be captured or controlled, but only received and shared as freely as the breath itself. — Richard Rohr Read Unknowing: Week 1 Summary

We cannot grow in the dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity and a willingness not to know—and not even to need to know. — Richard Rohr Read Dying by Brightness

Great mysteries are naturally experienced and known within our limited contexts, so we should be much more humble about our own opinions. — Richard Rohr Read Knowing that We Don’t Know

One of the conditions of enlightenment has always been a willingness to let go of what we thought we knew in order to appreciate truths we had never dreamed of. — Karen Armstrong Read Transcendence

God is not added to you, but you are added to God. God is the foundation onto which your soul is built. — Rick Hocker Read The God Particle

God made both the power to know and the power to love, but God is not knowable through the first one. We can only know God by experiencing God’s love. — The Cloud of Unknowing Read The Power of Love

No matter how sacred, no thought can ever promise to help you in the work of contemplative prayer, because only love—not knowledge—can help us reach God. — The Cloud of Unknowing Read The End of Knowing

The dark is the mystery that holds the unpredictable—the possible. It is the blank screen upon which to project all that is unsolved and unloved in our hearts. — Bill Plotkin Read Unknowing: Week 2 Summary

I have often been threatened with death. I do not believe in death without resurrection. If I am killed, I shall arise in the Salvadoran people. — Óscar Romero Read Persecuted for My Sake

We are called to be both the agony and the ecstasy of God—for the life of the world. It is a process of “oneing” with Foundational Reality, at-one-ment. — Richard Rohr Read Searching for Meaning

To look life straight in the eye, to see its pain and to see its beauty—this is an essential part of glimpsing the way forward. — John Philip Newell Read Knowledge of Good and Evil

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"What if Christ is a name for the transcendent within of every 'thing' in the universe? What if Christ is a name for the immense spaciousness of all true Love?"

"When we see who Mary Magdalene—Apostle to the Apostles—really is, we see what Christianity really is, what it could have been, and pray to God, can still become."

"Contemplation is a state of realized oneness with God. When engaged in contemplation, we rest in God resting in us. We are at home in God at home in us."

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