Quotes about Wisdom
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
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.
- 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
If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
- Fr. Richard Rohr