Richard Rohr Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an established "religion" (and all that goes with that) and avoided the lifestyle change itself. One could be warlike, greedy, racist, selfish, and vain in most of Christian history, and still believe that Jesus is one's "personal Lord and Savior" . . . The world has no time for such silliness anymore. The suffering on Earth is too great.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Jesus, Selfish

• The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

  Richard Rohr

  Compassion, Two, Great Love

• 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

• If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.

  Richard Rohr

  Years, Knowing, Abuse

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

• In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.

  Richard Rohr

  Strong, Ignorance, Ego

• If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

  Richard Rohr

  Suffering, Ifs, Transmit

• It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

  Richard Rohr

  Reading, Self, Suffering

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

• If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

  Richard Rohr

  Years, Suffering, World

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

• 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.

• Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.

  Richard Rohr

  Taken, Self, People

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

• 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

• Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

  Richard Rohr

  Profound, Listening, Suffering

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