It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. Richard Rohr More Quotes by Richard Rohr More Quotes From Richard Rohr You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone. Richard Rohr perspective strong moving A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom. Richard Rohr listeners helping people Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order. Richard Rohr lines perfect order If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side. Richard Rohr faces sides jesus To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world. Richard Rohr degrees heaven promise The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God". Richard Rohr pain suffering giving Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die. Richard Rohr new-beginnings ashes sunday I am who I am in the eyes of God- Richard Rohr i-am-who-i-am who-i-am eye Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self. Richard Rohr peaceful rocks self Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway. Richard Rohr biblical achievement ideas The ego knows itself by comparison. Richard Rohr comparison ego knows Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die. Richard Rohr chosen dies love-you The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference? Richard Rohr differences perfection giving The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order. Richard Rohr perfection joy order 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 sarcastic laughing people Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often thats what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems. Richard Rohr respect political military The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know. Richard Rohr compassionate humble doe When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us. Richard Rohr joining failing humanity Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself. Richard Rohr fingers moon should Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. Richard Rohr splits whole people
