A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor. Richard Rohr More Quotes by Richard Rohr More Quotes From Richard Rohr A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see. Richard Rohr good-teacherteacherpeople Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. Richard Rohr singingpraisesong All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. Richard Rohr great-spiritualspiritualitypain Pain that is not transformed is transmitted. Richard Rohr transformedpain There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough. Richard Rohr being-yourselfwho-i-amenough Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation. Richard Rohr eyejudgingprayer Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible. Richard Rohr selftryingpeople When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment. Richard Rohr voidmirrorsway The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143 Richard Rohr emotionalrealsimple The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems. Richard Rohr sunflowerlightmorning Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts. Richard Rohr simplereligiousjesus You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge. Richard Rohr healacknowledge My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite. Richard Rohr religiousdarkmean 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's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future. Richard Rohr egopastfall THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth. Richard Rohr self-worthjourneyadventure Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners. Richard Rohr peoplejesusthinking To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . . Richard Rohr demandmaturitygiving The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times. Richard Rohr one-linercommon If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it. Richard Rohr transmitifssuffering Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God. Richard Rohr creationcreativityprocess
