If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our… — 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
“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
“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
“One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative. — 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
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
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
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
“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 tragic sense of life is ironically not tragic at all, at least in the Big Picture. Living in such deep time,… — 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
There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“you never think yourself into a new way of living. You invariably live yourself into a new way of thinking.” — 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
