“You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The tragic sense of life is ironically not tragic at all, at least in the Big Picture. Living in such deep time,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“One of the major problems in the spiritual life is our attachment to our own self-image—either positively or negatively created. We have… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton who said: “The will of God is not a ‘fate’ to which we must submit, but a creative act in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The very unfortunate result of this preoccupation with order, control, safety, pleasure, and certitude is that a high percentage of people never… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Once you have met your own soul, you know that you are being guided. You are being led from within, and even… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Christ" is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole "Jesus" piece would not make… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share
![“What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/842/richard-rohr-618_amish_what-i-wish-i-had-said-in-the-book-falli_2094548.png)
