Breathing Under Water - Richard Rohr

We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. This counterintuitive wisdom will forever be resisted, denied, and avoided, until it is forced upon us—by some reality over which we are powerless — and if we are honest, we are all powerless in the presence of full Reality.
– Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water–

In Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps, Fr. Richard describes how the Twelve Steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program is America’s most significant and authentic contribution to the history of spirituality.
In this exploration, Fr. Richard draws parallels between Christian principles and AA’s Twelve Steps, connecting AA’s Big Book with the Gospel. This material draws on talks he has given for over twenty years to people in recovery and those close to them, as well as those who counsel people recovering from or living with an addiction. It is a practical guide to incorporating liturgy and contemplative prayer with the accountability of the 12 Steps Model, in a useful format, suitable either for a home study group or an individual seeking to deepen their own recovery journey.
Fr. Richard offers encouragement and inspiration to survive the tidal wave of compulsive behavior and addiction by learning to “breathe under water”.

The Element - Ken Robinson

The Element -How finding your Passion changes everything.

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: A New View of Human Capacity

 

“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

 

 

“Creativity is as important as literacy”
― Ken Robinson

 

“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.”
― Ken Robinson

 

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

 

 

“I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.”
― Ken Robinson