Falling Upward, Revised and Updated A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

But Richard Rohr's Falling Upward and it's all about first half of life, second half of life.

And it's making me feel a lot better because it's like you can only have the realizations and the wisdom of the second half of life because you've done the first half of life that way.

And that it's all about first half of life is about survival and identity and ego and protection and building and building.

And the second half of life is all about burning it down because you don't need it anymore.

It is the stuff that you built up because you needed it.

I've been telling the students at the school, picture three boxes, order, disorder, reorder. And that if you read the great myths of the world and the great religions, that's the normal path of transformation.

What the great religions are talking about, and I'm certainly talking about in the book Falling Upward, is this necessary confrontation with the tragic, the absurd, what St. Paul would call for Christians, the folly of the cross. That disorder is part of the deal.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day and then I must watch my reaction to it

it was about facing your shadow side as the only way to get bigger and deeper

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day. And then I must watch my reaction to it.

the preoccupations of the first half of life are there and it's, and that they have their place. It is the raft but not the shore, but it is the raft.

picture three boxes, order, disorder, reorder. And that if you read the great myths of the world and the great religions, that's the normal path of transformation.

the operative God image that most Western Christians operate with and Jews and Muslims are pretty much the same. Is a monarchical figure, an unmoved mover as Aristotle would say.

Franciscan mysticism is indeed mysticism but it is especially poised and prepared to lead people not just to inner experience but to the possibility of daily and regular experience in the depth and beauty of the ordinary.