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God brings us—through failure—from unconsciousness to ever-deeper consciousness and conscience.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We have to let go of the passing names by which we have tried to name ourselves and become the "naked self before the naked God." That will always feel like dying, because we are so attached to our passing names and identities. Your bare, undecorated self is already and forever the beloved child of God. When you can rest there, you will begin to share in the universal Christ consciousness, the very "mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16).
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We see what we are ready to see, expect to see, and even desire to see.
— 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
Given our present evolution of consciousness, and especially the historical and technological access we now have to the "whole picture," I now wonder if a sincere person can even have a healthy and holy "personal" relationship with God if that God does not also connect them to the universal. A personal God cannot mean a smaller God, nor can God make you in any way smaller—or such would not be God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously. Your False Self is just who you think you are—but thinking doesn't make it so.
— 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
As I'm coming to realize more and more, God holds everything together in a mysterious quantum entanglement. With each breath we participate in the life-death-life pattern that always ends in resurrection. My hope is that each of us will choose to participate consciously, aware of this privilege and delight in being co-creators with God. Just pray that I can do whatever God wants me to do.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In many ways what we're seeing as we explore the Bible is an observing of the development of human consciousness and human readiness for God. That's why we do see some difference between the earlier and later Scriptures: There's been a development in consciousness. In
— Fr. Richard Rohr