Quotes about Reflection
In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God brings us—through failure—from unconsciousness to ever-deeper consciousness and conscience.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
grace is found at the depths and in the death of everything. After these smaller deaths, we know that the only "deadly sin" is to swim on the surface of things, where we never see, find, or desire God and love.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
And we must—absolutely must—maintain a fundamental humility before the Great Mystery. If we do not, religion always worships itself and its formulations and never God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We always become what we behold; the presence that we practice matters.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
— 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