“I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.” ThinkingNeedsHeartKindnessBroken Book:Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps Source: Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE” NeedsPlayVictim Author:Richard Rohr
“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.” IfsNeedsWritingKindLongSpiritualTurnsPrayerSilenceStudyTeacherTvsPeriodsSolitudeDeeperTurn-onSpiritual TeachersJournaling Author:Richard Rohr
“You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.” NeedsGivingPersonsYoungIdentityEgoCreatingStructureConstructsNarcissistic Author:Richard Rohr
“As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!” WorldNeedsJesusWinningChristLove IsJesus ChristInfiniteCommunicateInvisibleGod's LoveUnstoppable Author:Richard Rohr
“People will often, almost always, prefer a male God. A male image of God gives them this sense of security, safety, order, no nonsense. So that's where their psyche is at. Probably it's something that they've got to go through. Not that there isn't a need for order in the world, but the mystical level seems to be the mature level of religion, and there the question is not order but union - divine union. And so, without some integration of the feminine, usually you never get to the mystical level.” PeopleWorldNeedsGivingSeemsOrderLevelsSecurityDivineSafetyUnionsMalesNonsenseMatureFeminineMysticalIntegrationGod ImageNo Nonsense Author:Richard Rohr
“We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.” IfsNeedsHardCertainPerfectPathImagineIncludingUnhappyHappy LifeImperfectUnhappy LifeImperfect Things Author:Richard Rohr
“There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.” NeedsFirstsThreeChurchPowerfulPartyHalfSuccessfulLetting GoEgoBeing SuccessfulPrisonerSplitsThree ThingsCompulsionEgo Trip Author:Richard Rohr
“Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.” NeedsHelpingTodayChristianLevelsMessagesTransformationMethodDeeper Author: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.” KnowsNeedsActionMovingCertainStrongGrowsAbilityMysteryPerspectiveDegreesAnxietyForgivingToleranceContemplationEncountersZoneWillingnessAmbiguityContemplative Author:Richard Rohr
“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.” NeedsDoeAbleRivers Author:Richard Rohr
“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” NeedsGivingTryingRealAsksSocialSimpleTeachEmotionalSkillsAnxietyEvidencePerformancesShameIntimacyAssaultAppearingSocial SkillsAcronyms Author:Richard Rohr
“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.” MenNeedsSelfFormJourneyAdventureDifficultyMalesSelf WorthUncertaintyTrust In GodSense Of Self Author:Richard Rohr
“All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .” PeopleNeedsFeelsChildrenLittlesEnoughSpiritualityPoorTeachProtectProveLetting GoWho You AreNakedChild Of God Author:Richard Rohr
“If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.” IfsNeedsDependsInspiredMotivated Author:Richard Rohr
“It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.” PeopleNeedsFeelsChildrenChild Of God Author:Richard Rohr
“Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.” KnowsNeedsStatesMovingGroupsCrossesProtectionBridgesGuidancePatronage Author:Richard Rohr
“Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.” WayNeedsDifferentDesireChoicesCultureLevelsConsciousnessTeachGroupsDifferent WaysPreference Author:Richard Rohr
