Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then… — 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
“I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism,… — 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
“If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can… — 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 Image
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 Image
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
