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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

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The Book of Accidents

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Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

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Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish ...more

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Roya’s Quotes

“When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: failure, humanity

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“Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: confrontation, conviction

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“When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: identity, vocation, works

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“The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: excuses, salvation, sin

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“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: conservatism, humility, idolatry, status-quo

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