Summary of Richard Rohr's Breathing Under Water

Milkyway Media

May 2022 · Milkyway Media · AI-narrated by Marcus (from Google)

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1

I do not understand why God created the world this way. It seems like God is playing games with us. God seems to have hidden holiness and wholeness in a secret place where only the humble will find it.

#2

People who have moved from seeming success to seeming success rarely understand success at all, except a very limited version of it. People who fail to do it right, by even their own definition of right, are those who often break through to enlightenment and compassion.

#3

The first step in the Twelve Steps is the hardest, most denied, and most avoided. It is the ego that has to go, and only powerlessness can do the job correctly.