Quote by Richard Rohr Download Open image “If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.” — Richard Rohr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient… — Kenny Smith Copy Share
“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
