“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
"Christ" is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole "Jesus" piece would not make… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can… — 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
If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Maybe even sadder is the willingness to give your whole life producing items of no social benefit, or even destructive, like slot… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Until we walk with despair, and still have hope, we will not know that our hope was not just hope in ourselves,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“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 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
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than… — 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
Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation… — 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
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
Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,… — 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
“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
