Quotes about Change
Resurrection" is another word for change, but particularly positive change—which we tend to see only in the long run. In the short run, it often just looks like death.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.
— 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
Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
As Jaroslav Pelikan so wisely put it years ago, "Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, and I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives Tradition such a bad name
— 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
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
Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.
— Fr. Richard Rohr