Quotes from Fr. Richard Rohr

It is the primary form of "dying to the self" that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially. The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions.

you must first "go into the tomb" with Jesus (Romans 6:4)

Once your life has become a constant communion, you know that all the techniques, formulas, sacraments, and practices were just a dress rehearsal for the real thing—life itself—which can actually become a constant intentional prayer.

I wondered if God might have an easier time using animals to communicate who God is, since they do not seem as willful and devious as we are.

It is interesting to me that very clear passages describing both God's conditional love and also God's unconditional love are found in the same Scriptures...The only real biblical promise is that unconditional love will have the last word!

Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find?

We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.

Both the church's practice and its Platonic pronouncements create tragic gaps for any person with an operative head and a beating heart. But remember, even a little bit of God is well worth loving, and even a little bit of truth and love goes a long way.

Just as the Spirit always makes one out of two, so the evil one invariably makes two out of one!

JULIAN OF NORWICH AND THE FIRST

In a certain but real sense, the church itself is the first cross that Jesus is crucified on, as we limit, mangle, and try to control the always too big message. All the churches seem to crucify Jesus again and again by their inability to receive his whole body, but they often resurrect him too. I am without doubt a microcosm of this universal church.

God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.