When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. — 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
“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
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.” — 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
“The very unfortunate result of this preoccupation with order, control, safety, pleasure, and certitude is that a high percentage of people never… — 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
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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
“Our Living School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is trying to reintroduce the West to what we call the Perennial Tradition, the underground… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“But when we have too much “I,” with too much “I have a right to,” then we necessarily move to a life… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control… — 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
“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
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself. Most of our mainline Christian denominations,… — 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
“Let me sum it up this way: We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into… — 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
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
What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as… — 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
![“What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/842/richard-rohr-618_amish_what-i-wish-i-had-said-in-the-book-falli_2094548.jpg)
