Falling Upward Audiobook By Richard Rohr, Brené Brown - foreword cover art

Falling Upward

A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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Falling Upward

By: Richard Rohr, Brené Brown - foreword
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help listeners come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can't understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.

Most of us tend to think of the second half of life in chronological terms, but this book proposes a different paradigm. Spiritual maturity is found "when we begin to pay attention and seek integrity" through a shift from our "outer task" to the "inner task." Falling Upward is an invitation to living the gospel and a call to ongoing transformation.

- Gain a spiritual perspective on the "the common sequencing, staging, and direction of life's arc" and learn how to bring forth your gifts in the second half of life

- Grapple with difficult feelings, fears, and emotions associated with "great love and great suffering"

- Learn how we "grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right"

- Understand why so many of us resist falling into the second half of life.

©2024 Richard Rohr (P)2024 Tantor Personal Development Spiritual Growth Spirituality Christian Living Inspiring Christianity
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Richard Rohr has done an excellent job of explaining the conceptual framework behind paradoxical relationships involving the corporate church in America, intra-personal identity, and the past/present societal struggles that are associated with the current social/political environment.

The paradoxical nature of past, present and future relationships.

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Growing up in a Christian home, my perception of God has certainly changed. The critical inner voice drove me to my suffering. The more I learn about my true self, the more I see and experience the God that Richard describes in this book. At this point in the walk, I feel undeserving of the peace I experience. This book was a guide to see where I was at. Pointing and highlighting Christ’s teachings and encouraging me to continue. Thank you.

Pointed to truth

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Loved this book. Great for transitioning into different stages of life. Lots of great wisdom.

Refreshing

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Falling Upward is for those of us who have lived enough to feel the ache beneath the control. The quiet tension between who we’ve been and who we’re still becoming. Rohr writes to that part of the soul, not to push it, but to meet it gently. Not just to grow, but to soften, to open, to feel.

A Catholic priest for over 50 years, Rohr carries spiritual authority, but he doesn’t wield it. He honors tradition without hiding behind it. As someone raised very Catholic, I recognize the weight of his role. But I admire even more the way he steps outside of it with reverence, not rebellion. He invites a deeper truth.

“It is precisely by falling off the bike many times that you eventually learn what the balance feels like… People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance.” That image of a wobble before finding equilibrium reminds us that we weren’t sure, once, but we learned. And we can still learn. Even now. Especially now.

This book stays beside you while your soul recalibrates. It affirms that the pull toward depth isn’t confusion, it’s clarity. That undoing isn’t collapse, it’s transformation.

If you’ve felt that pull - the one you can’t quite name but also can’t ignore - I hope you listen. I hope you trust yourself. Not because I’m saying to. But because part of you already is.

Trust Yourself

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I love Brene’ Brown, and it would have been much more engaging, and more authentic, had she read her foreword herself.

The narrator is clear, but very boring. The humanity is non-existent, and that’s is very sad for such a dynamic book.

It is very hard for me to listen… I may not be able to finish.

Great book but missed the mark entirely, for me. The voice is so not dynamic, it sounds like AI. I hated listening.

The narrator was soooooooooo boring.

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