If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
Richard RohrYour false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.
Richard RohrThe most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.
Richard RohrItโs the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They donโt feel the need to eliminate anybody.
Richard RohrItโs a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your โIโ is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary โI.โ No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.
Richard Rohr