The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey

Author:Oprah Winfrey
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Flatiron Books

Father RICHARD ROHR

FATHER RICHARD ROHR: For a marriage to be successful, you’ve got to have someone who wants you to grow into who you really are. And if you don’t have that, I have seen people become smaller after marriage. But love has to expand. It always has to expand. I believe we each create our private salvation project—what will make me wonderful, what will make me look beautiful and be admired? And every time people have to let go of that in its present form and reshape it, they say, “Darn, I based my life on that salvation project and now it’s gone.” You know? “I based my life on looking good or being a priest or being married. And now that’s falling apart. That’s dying.” And you never go there voluntarily. You fall.

OPRAH: Yes. So this happens when you go through a divorce. At first you fight it, and you think it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to you. And then you come out the other side and you feel a greater sense of freedom and closer to your true self.

FATHER ROHR: Yes, it might take you five years to get there. But you wake up one day and say, My God, this is much better.

OPRAH: Or you lose your job.

FATHER ROHR: Yes, or your reputation or your money. You know, all of those tragedies. That’s the way the self expands. I’m sorry to say it’s true, but it’s true. It’s all what you do with suffering. If you don’t transform your suffering, Oprah, I always say, with 100 percent certitude, you will transmit your suffering to your family, your neighbors, even to your country.

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