02UndatedOur wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
04UndatedSacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn’t the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
05UndatedPeople who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".Richard Rohr / quote ↗
06UndatedFinal authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
07UndatedIt is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
08UndatedWhen we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
09UndatedDenial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
10UndatedGod seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
11UndatedOnce you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
12UndatedIt's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
13UndatedOne great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
14UndatedJesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
15UndatedWhen you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselvesRichard Rohr / quote ↗
16UndatedOur first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
18UndatedIn the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
19UndatedI do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
20UndatedThe cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
22UndatedI have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
23UndatedThe shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
24UndatedSell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.Richard Rohr / quote ↗
