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People wanted to me to describe more about what I call the container, and then describe what the second half of life feels like. (Richard Rohr Quotes)
The message of falling - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling is really found in all the world’s religions, just in different languages. (Richard Rohr Quotes)
It’s not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don’t run and report me to the bishop, all right? It’s not correct to say that - Jesus is the union of the human and the divine. That’s different. (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Our 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 Quotes)
Our 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 Quotes)
Jesus praised faith and trust ” even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart. (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. (Richard Rohr Quotes)
To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this. (Richard Rohr Quotes)
I’ve had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world. (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism (Richard Rohr Quotes)
It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually (Richard Rohr Quotes)
The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order (Richard Rohr Quotes)
If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we’re in our middle years, when we’ve experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Famine, poverty, abuse, you can’t keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level (Richard Rohr Quotes)
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what’s there: all of it (Richard Rohr Quotes)
The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there (Richard Rohr Quotes)
In 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 Quotes)
In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us (Richard Rohr Quotes)
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you (Richard Rohr Quotes)
God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening (Richard Rohr Quotes)
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself (Richard Rohr Quotes)
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don’t even know why (Richard Rohr Quotes)