In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery… — 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 change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This… — 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
All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us - and all at the same… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It has taken me much of my life to begin to get to the second gaze. By nature I have a critical… — 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
