Quotes about Awareness
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
It is often when the ego is most deconstructed that we can hear things anew and begin some honest reconstruction, even if it is only half heard and halfhearted.
— Fr. Richard Rohr