Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority 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
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
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
Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them… — 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
