Quotes about Existence
Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Having looked at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one, nor any particle of one, but has reference to the Soul. —Walt Whitman
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Love is the one eternal thing and takes away your foundational fear of death. This is very good stuff.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
My starting point is that we're already there. We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We do not really know what it means to be human unless we know God. And, in turn, we do not really know God except through our own broken and rejoicing humanity.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God's greatest ally is reality itself. God's greatest revelation is what is (see Romans 1:20)—not what we want it to be, and not even what it should be—not abstract theories but concrete encounters.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Begin with a concrete moment of encounter, based in this physical world, and the soul universalizes from there, so that what is true here becomes true everywhere else too.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It's heaven all the way to heaven. And it's hell all the way to hell. Not later, but now.
- Fr. Richard Rohr