Quotes about Awareness
Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
But once we become practiced at a contemplative worldview, a "thisness" way of seeing, there is nothing trivial anymore and all is grace.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
your soul is who you are in God and who God is in you. You can never really lose your soul; you can only fail to realize it, which is indeed the greatest of losses: to have it but not have it (Matthew 16:26).
- Fr. Richard Rohr
most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are!
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We don't think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Before the truth 'sets you free', it tends to make you miserable.
- Fr. Richard Rohr