Richard Rohr Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Emotional, Spirituality

• Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Hate, People

• Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Transformed

• All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Spirituality, Great Spiritual

• If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Ifs, Transmit

  Richard Rohr (2016). “Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality”, p.18, SPCK

• In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Grieving, Soul

• 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, Giving, Suffering

  "A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer". Book by Richard Rohr, 2011.

• Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Suffering, Pain And Suffering

  Richard Rohr (2004). “Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation”, Crossroad Publishing Company

• If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Ifs, Transmit

  Richard Rohr (2014). “A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer”, p.103, Paulist Press

• Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.

  Richard Rohr

  Running, Hurt, Pain

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