Falling Upward
A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

As part of my continuing exploration of spiritual books in preparation for a June retirement, I decided, on the recommendation of a trusted few, to read Richard Rohr's Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life. I am glad I did. Rohr has helped me realize that much of the impatience an......more

I've been reading this book slowly--about a chapter every week, for the past several months--partly because I loved and wanted to savor it, partly because it's so rich that I couldn't take in too much at once. Fr. Rohr is a Franciscan priest with a particularly capacious sense of what it means to be......more

I've finished reading "Falling Upward" by Fr. Rohr. Not only that but also, I am familiar with much of his research material. I’ve read Bourgeault’s "Centering Prayer;" Chodron’s "Start Where You Are;" rather much of the Jung, the Xavier, and Pearson’s "Six Archetypes We Live By." When you read a Ki......more

"God hides and is found, precisely in the depths of everything....Sin is to stay on the surface of even holy things...." "Once you touch upon the Real, there is an inner insistence that the Real, if it is the Real, has to be forever." This book is a guide for realizing your path, shedding your excess......more

This book was uncanny in clarifying many of the often confusing inner movements of my life in the past 5+ years. Could it be that I have been encountering a "falling upward" from a "first-half-of-life" into a "second half of life"? Although there is a newly acquired peace and softness that comes wit......more