The truly human is always experienced in vulnerability, in mutuality, in reciprocity. Vulnerability transforms you. You can't be in the presence of a truly vulnerable, honestly vulnerable person and not be affected. I think that's the way we were meant to be in the presence of one another.
Richard Rohr
The Truly Human
Topic: Temperance & Humility
“I think the truly human is always experienced in vulnerability, in mutuality, in reciprocity. When human beings try to deny their own vulnerability, even from themselves, when they cannot admit weakness, neediness, hurt, pain, suffering, sadness, they become very unhuman and not very attractive. They don’t change you; they don’t invite you.
Vulnerability transforms you. You can’t be in the presence of a truly vulnerable, honestly vulnerable person and not be affected. I think that’s the way we are meant to be in the presence of one another.“
Richard Rohr is founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His many books include Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, and most recently, Divine Dance.
Living In Deep Time
Tippett, Krista. “Richard Rohr - Living in Deep Time.” The On Being Project, The On Being Project, 13 Apr. 2017, onbeing.org/programs/richard-rohr-living-in-deep-time-apr2017/.
Richard Rohr
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Richard Rohr
is founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His many books include Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, and most recently, Divine Dance.
Living in Deep Time
Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way into spiritual depth and religious thought — through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: male formation and what he calls “father hunger”; why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it’s ever been; and how to set about taking the first half of life — the drive to “successful survival” — all the way to meaning.
— On Being with Krista Tippett [Link is in Resources]