“Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold… — 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
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
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 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
“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 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
“Great people do not need to concoct an identity for themselves; they merely try to discover, uncover, and enjoy the identity they… — 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
“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
