It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.” — Richard rohr Copy Share Image
The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God, "the face you had… — 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
“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
Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Your False Self is who you think you are. Your thinking does not make it true. Your False Self is almost entirely… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“mental self-images instead of living in the primal “I” that is already good in God’s eyes. But all I can “pay back”… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be… — 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
