Quotes about Transformation
If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
- Fr. Richard Rohr
People are always trying to build temples and churches for God. And what is God trying to do? He is trying to build us into a temple, a living temple, a temple of the Holy Spirit, as St. Paul says (1 Corinthians 3:16-17).
- Fr. Richard Rohr
In the first half of life, we fight the devil and have the illusion and inflation of "winning" now and then; in the second half of life, we always lose because we are invariably fighting God.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling or changing or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo, even when it is not working. It attaches to past and present, and fears the future.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It is the things that you cannot do anything about and the things that you cannot do anything with that do something with you.
- 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
Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past." It is what it is, and such acceptance leads to great freedom, as long as there is also accountability and healing in the process.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr