Quotes about Awareness
Religion, at its best, helps people to bring this foundational divine love into ever-increasing consciousness. In other words, it's more about waking up than about cleaning up.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
reality itself, our reality, my limited and sometimes misinterpreted experience, still becomes the revelatory place for God.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
you never think yourself into a new way of living. You invariably live yourself into a new way of thinking.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The proof that you are a Christian is that you can see Christ everywhere else.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
When you look at any other person, a flower, a honeybee, a mountain—anything—you are seeing the incarnation of God's love for you and the universe you call home.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Because far too many religious folks do not seriously pursue this "reverence humming within them," they do not recognize
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Remember, light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. —Mechtild of Magdeburg (1212—1282)
- Fr. Richard Rohr
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- Fr. Richard Rohr