Richard Rohr Quotes About Contemplation

Quotes about: Contemplation

• 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

  Prayer, Eye, Judging

  "Richard Rohr on Praying like St. Francis". St. Anthony Messenger interview, www.franciscanmedia.org.

• Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

  Richard Rohr

  Opposites, Addiction, Alternatives

  "Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

• I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.

  Richard Rohr

  Teaching, Years, Lasts

  "Richard Rohr: Off the Road and On to the Living School". Interview with Jamie L. Manson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

• 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

  Strong, Moving, Perspective

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