You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
Richard RohrThe important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
Richard RohrLife is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Richard RohrIf 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