Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
As with lovers, When it’s right, you can’t say Who is kissing whom.1 —Gregory Orr
Richard Rohr • Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
radical simplification.
Richard Rohr • Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
experiential knowledge of spiritual things, as opposed to book knowledge, secondhand knowledge or even church knowledge.
Richard Rohr • Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that you want something new. The old will defy the new; The old will deny the new; The old will decry the new. There is only one way to bring in the new. You must make room for it.