You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.
Richard RohrThe morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
Richard RohrWhen you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.
Richard Rohr