Audiobooks by Richard Rohr

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help listeners come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can't understand the meaning of 'up' until we have fallen 'down.' More importantly, Rohr describes what 'up' can look like in the second half of life. Most of us tend to think of the second half of life in chronological terms, but this book proposes a different paradigm. Spiritual maturity is found 'when we begin to pay attention and seek integrity' through a shift from our 'outer task' to the 'inner task.' Falling Upward is an invitation to living the gospel and a call to ongoing transformation. - Gain a spiritual perspective on the 'the common sequencing, staging, and direction of life's arc' and learn how to bring forth your gifts in the second half of life - Grapple with difficult feelings, fears, and emotions associated with 'great love and great suffering' - Learn how we 'grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right' - Understand why so many of us resist falling into the second half of life.

Richard Rohr (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality

From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality is a revised and updated edition of Richard Rohr's earlier bestseller, The Wild Man's Journey: Reflections on Male Spirituality. For this new work, Rohr added three chapters that discuss John the Baptist, Saint Paul, and grief. An appendix provides a structure for a men's group, based on Rohr's work with M.A.L.Es (Men As Learners and Elders), a program of the Center for Action and Contemplation, which Richard Rohr founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Richard Rohr (Author), Dean Gallagher (Narrator)

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Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation

“At the heart of this offering is an invitation to be still. Such stillness, however, is not a barren field, devoid of substance. It is a silence replete with beauty. It is what Buddhism refers to as sunyata, the boundlessness that characterizes the truth of existence.” —Mirabai Starr, from the foreword In Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation, Richard Rohr focuses on finding God in the depths of silence. Divine silence is more than the absence of noise; it has a life of its own. We are invited into its living presence to find the wholeness of being and peace it brings. This book will inspire you and show that the peace of contemplation is not something just for monks, mystics, and those divorced from the worries of the world, but rather for all people who can quiet their own mind to listen in the silence. What’s more, this silence can absorb paradoxes, contradictions, and the challenges of life, ultimately connecting us with the great chain of being. While different faiths use different languages and different words, silence can become a common place for all to experience God. In May 2013, the Festival of Faiths conference in Louisville, Kentucky, featured His Holiness the Dalai Lama in an event called “Sacred Silence: Pathway to Compassion.” Richard Rohr was selected as the Christian presence among a small group of “world renowned experts on contemplative practice and compassion.” Others represented Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Silent Compassion curates the Franciscan friar’s talks from that event as well as interviews that place his thoughts in the context of his larger work as founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation. This is an updated and expanded edition of Rohr’s original presentation on the subject.

Mirabai Starr, Richard Rohr, Richard Rohr O.F.M. (Author), Dean Gallagher (Narrator)

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Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

In Falling Upward (and in many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talked at length about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity, especially if its preoccupations continue into the second half of life. But if there's a False Self, is there also a True Self? What is it? How is it found? Why does it matter? And what does it have to do with the spiritual journey? In this new book, he likens True Self to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, that must be searched for, uncovered, separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not resuscitation but transformation. Immortal Diamond (whose title is taken from a line in a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem) explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality, and meaning in Richard Rohr's inimitable style.

Richard Rohr (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective

This runaway bestseller shows both the basic logic of the Enneagram and its harmony with the core truths of Christian thought from the time of the early Church forward. Experience author Richard Rohr's expertise and advanced thought on the subject, easily laid out for all audiences. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.

Andreas Ebert, Richard Rohr (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator)

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Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

This popular and bestselling book from a renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the comfort of a settled life toward an understanding of themselves that is rooted in their connection to God. Only when they rest in God can they find the certainty and the freedom to become all that they can be. Contemplation has its place at the heart of Christianity, a place that allows people to experience how "everything belongs."

Richard Rohr (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator)

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The Naked Now: Learning To See As the Mystics See

The enlightenment you seek in other religions has been present in Christianity from the beginning. Richard Rohr, a global leader in spiritual awakening, helps you recognize the forces (such as ego resistance and dual thinking) that separate you from your deeper self. Then, drawing from Gospels and the greatest Christian contemplatives, he shows you what it means to be spiritually awake. You will learn why your ego resists change and growth, what is useful about popular ideas such as the law of attraction, what Jesus, the first mythical leader in the West, can teach you, and how you can enhance spiritual awareness without sacrificing reason.

Richard Rohr (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator)

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The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

The Trinity is supposed to be the central doctrine grounding Christianity, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it's a mystery. But what if we breached that mystery? How might it transform our relationship with God? Although the word 'trinity' isn't found in the New Testament-it wasn't until the third century that it was coined-the idea of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit was present in Jesus' life and teachings. In the pages of this book, internationally recognized teacher Richard Rohr circles around this paradoxical idea-and circling around is an apt metaphor: early Christians applied the Greek verb for dance to the mystery of the Trinity, saying whatever is going on in God is a flow-it's like a dance.

Richard Rohr (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator)

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In the Footsteps of St. Paul

In retracing the second and third missionary trips of St. Paul, Father Richard Rohr breaks open the life of this saint, recasting him as a mystic and as the first Christian theologian. Rohr presents Paul's revolutionary and all-embracing vision and invites us to enter into the mystery of Christ and be transformed. Rohr breaks new ground by applying up-to-date theories of our universe, integrating them with Paul's revolutionary thinking about sin, saints and spirituality. As he and other pilgrims travel in October 2014 from Athens and Corinth to Berea, Thessalonika, Philippi, and Patmos in Greece to Ephesus, Istanbul, Miletus, and Pergamum in Turkey, Richard Rohr presents Paul's revolutionary and all-embracing vision and invites us to enter into the mystery of Christ and be transformed.

O.F.M. Richard Rohr, Richard Rohr (Author), O.F.M. Richard Rohr, Richard Rohr (Narrator)

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Reifes Leben: Eine spirituelle Reise

Richard Rohrs Buch über die spirituelle Dimension des Älter- und Reiferwerdens: Was ist von Bedeutung auf der Lebensreise? Während Menschen in der ersten Hälfte in Beruf und Partnerschaft an der 'Form' ihres Lebens arbeiten, rückt in der zweiten Lebenshälfte dessen 'Inhalt' in den Mittelpunkt. Darüber entscheiden nicht zuerst Altersstufen, sondern vor allem Erfahrungen des Loslassens und wie wir damit umgehen - auf dem Weg zu unserem 'wahren Selbst'.

Richard Rohr (Author), Alexander Radszun (Narrator)

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Das Wahre Selbst: Werden, wer wir wirklich sind - gelesen von Alexander Radszun

Wie kein anderer erschließt Richard Rohr die Themen zeitgenössischer Spiritualität. Seine Botschaft: Wir sind nicht einfach das 'Ego', in dem sich Normen und Rollenerwartungen an uns verdichten. Wie ein Diamant im Kohlenstaub eingeschlossen lebt in der Tiefe unseres Herzens unser Wahres Selbst. Spiritualität ist der Weg, auf dem wir aus den Erfahrungen unseres Lebens unser Wahres Selbst zutage fördern. Das christliche Bild dieser Selbst-Findung heißt 'Auferstehung'.

Richard Rohr (Author), Alexander Radszun (Narrator)

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Falling Upward

In the first half of life, we are naturally preoccupied with establishing ourselves; climbing, achieving, and performing. But as we grow older and encounter challenges and mistakes, we need to see ourselves in a different and more life-giving way. This message of falling down - that is in fact moving upward - is the most resisted and counterintuitive of messages in the world's religions. Falling Upward offers a new paradigm for understanding one of the most profound of life's mysteries: how those who have fallen down are the only ones who understand up. We grow spiritually more by doing it wrong than by doing it right, and the disappointments of life are actually stepping stones to the spiritual joys in the second half of life.

Richard Rohr (Author), Richard Rohr (Narrator)

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