Quotes about Awareness
True religion is always a deep intuition that we are already participating in something very good, in spite of our best efforts to deny it or avoid it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
But it takes us much longer to discover "the task within the task," as I like to call it: what we are really doing when we are doing what we are doing.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
the Greek word meta-noia, which literally means to move "beyond the mind," is usually translated "repentance" and no longer points to its much deeper meaning.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
To keep the mind space open, you need some form of meditative practice—something much more than saying prayers. In fact, if recitation of prayers does not lead to a change in consciousness, it is actually counterproductive.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Anne Wilson Schaef
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The second insight about steps and stages is that from your own level of development, you can only stretch yourself to comprehend people just a bit beyond yourself.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It seems we are not that free to be honest, or even aware, because most of our garbage is buried in the unconscious. So, it is absolutely essential that we find a spirituality that reaches to that hidden level. If not, nothing really changes.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact and the place of surrender.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
That is Pride," explained Wisdom. "It is the hardest enemy to see after you have been in the glory. Those who refuse to put on this cloak will suffer much at the hands of that most devious enemy.
- Rick Joyner
Familiarity breeds complacency.
- Rick Warren