Richard Rohr
American Franciscan priest, ecumenical contemplative teacher, and founder (1987) of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque — one of the most widely-read contemplative Christian voices of the twenty-first century, with daily meditations reaching more than half a million readers. Born 1943 in Topeka, Kansas, Rohr was ordained Franciscan in 1970 and has become a bridge figure for readers across Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and secular contemplative streams: drawing on the Desert Mothers and Fathers, Francis of Assisi, Julian of Norwich, Meister Eckhart, Carl Jung, and the perennial tradition. His best-known books — Falling Upward, The Universal Christ, Immortal Diamond, Everything Belongs, Breathing Under Water — reframe Christian doctrine through the lens of contemplative experience and the second half of life.
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Quotes by Richard Rohr
116 quotes“In the end, you must love your way into new thinking.”
“You can't think your way into new ways of loving.”
“Belief is not enough.”
“You have to actually trust your experience and the witness of others, and step inside.”
“To stop and rest, to walk and not run, to love rather than to need, to forgive rather than to seek revenge — these are the deeper movements of the soul.”
“The True Self is who you are, and always have been in God.”
“It is your image and likeness, the gift you didn't earn.”
“The False Self is your manufactured self, the one you and your culture have constructed.”
“It is what you think of yourself, and what others think of you.”
“All you can do is keep returning to the source of your being.”
“Your False Self is your role, title, and personal image that is largely a creation of your own mind and attachments.”
“It will and must die in exact correlation to your discovery of your True Self.”
“Most of us must learn the hard way that our True Self is naked and unprotected.”
“You can't really 'do' contemplation; rather, contemplation is done to you.”
“Mystical seeing is from the soul, beyond words and arguments.”
“What I learned in the Catholic priesthood is that the only way I could love God was if I learned to love everyone else, even my enemies.”
“Without God I cannot do this. Without me, God cannot do this.”
“Most of us can come to true seeing only by suffering.”
“It is more like trust in love itself.”
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