Kelly McLeay

“Salvation is not sin perfectly avoided, as the ego would prefer; but in fact, salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“a person must pass the lessons learned on to others—or there has been no real gift at all.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Sometimes it seems that half of the fairy tales of the world are some form of Cinderella, ugly duckling, or poor boy story, telling of the little person who has no power or possessions who ends up being king or queen, prince or princess. We write it off as wishful dreaming, when it is actually the foundational pattern of disguise or amnesia, loss, and recovery. Every Beauty is sleeping, it seems, before it can meet its Prince. The duckling must be “ugly,” or there will be no story. The knight errant must be wounded, or he will never even know what the Holy Grail is, much less find it. Jesus must be crucified, or there can be no resurrection. It is written in our hardwiring, but can only be heard at the soul level. It will usually be resisted and opposed at the ego level.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life