If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.
Richard RohrThe human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo โ even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
Richard RohrThe most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
Richard RohrIn solitude, at last, weโre able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be definedโby relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
Richard RohrMany people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America "traditional" Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.
Richard Rohr