You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes Richard Rohr
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Mar 18, 2015 
Franciscan Friar Richard Rohr discusses mystical teachings, non-duality, and transrational beliefs. Topics include faith deconstruction, embracing suffering, finding grace, and redefining sin. Insightful exploration of spirituality and personal growth.
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Let Suffering Teach Surrender
- Accept that suffering strips control and forces surrender, which opens the only real path to transformation.
- Recognize everyday frustrations as tiny teachers that loosen your grip on egoic control.
Use Rules As Training, Then Release Them
- Use laws and rules as necessary early-stage training to build impulse control in youth.
- Then guide maturing people toward loves-driven freedom where 'do what you will' springs from formed virtue.
Personal Loss Opened True Compassion
- Pete Holmes recounts how divorce and a period of 'doing bad things' opened his empathy and compassion for others.
- That life phase removed his superiority complex and deepened real care for friends' struggles.