#Richard rohr

[dramoor]

"Jesus did not so much love people once they changed, but he loved people so that they could change."

~Richard Rohr

(Art: Christ Divine, by Jorge Cocco)

#Christian art #sacrocubism #Lord Jesus Christ #Richard Rohr #love #He first loved us

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Christianity is a lifestyle—a way of being in the world that is simple, nonviolent, shared, and loving. However, we made it into an established religion (and all that goes with that) and avoided the lifestyle change itself. We could be warlike, greedy, racist, selfish, and vain throughout most of Christian history and still believe that Jesus is our personal Lord and Savior or continue, in good standing, to receive the sacraments. The world has no time for such silliness anymore. The suffering on earth is too great.

― Richard Rohr, OFM, Yes, and...: Daily Meditations (2013). Rohr identifies one of the fundamental theological errors of the Southern Baptists.

[Robert Scott Horton]

#Christianity #Richard Rohr #Robert Scott Horton #quotes #religion #nonviolence #love

[siamkram]

#richard rohr #truth #religions #spirituality #the perennial philosophy

[paizleyrayz]

The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

Richard Rohr

#richard rohr #faith #god #love #spiritual #quotes #pz

[kamala-laxman]

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.” Richard Rohr

#richard rohr #self awareness

[infinitedonut]

“The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.” - Richard Rohr

#richard rohr #quote

[ophelia-network]

“The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.” —Richard Rohr

Quest for the Well of Souls by Clyde Caldwell

#quest for the well of souls #clyde caldwell #richard rohr #fantasy art #fairy #blue #wings #surreal #ophelia net #happiness #soul journey #courage #inner self #responsibility #self awareness #awakening #humility #compassion #dark fae #faery folk #fairies #painting #art

[apenitentialprayer]

Christ Enthroned, by Kelly Latimore.

Today, the vision that the world gives us for happiness is basically that we have to get everything right. If I go to the right college and I get the right job, and then I find the right spouse and I get the right friends, and then I live in the right place — if I get that all right, then I'll be happy. It's no wonder we all have so much anxiety. Because that's a lot of stuff to try to get right. What's the problem with this picture? Well, the problem is that I'm at the center, and I'll never get all that right, and no one of those things will ever satisfy me. And so, in order to be happy, what do I have to do? I have to dethrone myself from the center of my life, put Jesus at the center, and then ask Him: Jesus, where do you want me to go to college? What's the career you made me for? Who am I supposed to marry, if I'm supposed to get married? What's my vocation? All these questions come when I realize Jesus is Lord.

- Bishop Andrew Cozzens (Beautiful Eucharist, pages 47-48). Italics original.

[O]nce you know that, in Christ, God is forever overcoming the gap between human and divine — the Christian path becomes less about climbing and performance, and more about descending, letting go, and unlearning. Knowing and loving Jesus is largely about becoming fully human, wounds and all, instead of ascending spiritually or thinking we can remain unwounded. The ego does not like this fundamental switch at all, so we keep returning to some kind of performance principle, trying to climb out of this messy incarnation instead of learning from it.

- Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. (The Universal Christ, page 110)

Come and see the works of the Lord who has done fearsome deeds on the earth; who stops wars to the ends of the earth, breaks the bow, splinters the spear, and burns the shields with fire; "Be still and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth." The LORD of hosts is with us; Our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Selah.

Psalm 46:9-12

#Christianity #Catholicism #ego #kenosis #submission #anxiety #joy #happiness #Jesus Christ #Christ Pantocrator #Richard Rohr #Book of Psalms #vocations #discernment #perfectionism #pride #humility #grace #prayer #icon #angels #Four Evangelists

[fierysword]

Love can flow toward you in every moment: through a flower, in a grain of sand, in a wisp of cloud, in any one person whom you allow to delight you... Spiritual joy has nothing to do with anything ‘going right.’ It has everything to do with things going, and going on within you. It’s an inherent, inner aliveness. Joy is almost entirely an inside job. Joy is not first determined by the object enjoyed as much as by the prepared eye of the enjoyer. When the flow is flowing, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing... It’s all inherently sacred and deeply satisfying. As the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning put it, “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God.” All is whole and holy in the very seeing, because you are standing inside the One Flow of Love... This is the Ground of all Being out of which all things—and especially all good things—come. The river is already flowing, and you are in it whether you are enjoying it or not.

Richard Rohr

#living spirituality #God is Love #in whom we live and move and have our being #immanence #Richard rohr #christian mysticism #creation spirituality #panentheism

[the-end-of-art]

"In talking about letting go of the ego's needs and accomplishments and the need to be less in control, I could be interpreted as overemphasizing detachment. But when you look at Jesus on the cross, you see that Christianity is a religion of attachment. Jesus says to love and pay the price for it. The soul always attaches. It falls in love. Look at the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. His heart is out in front. Maybe it's terrible art, but it's great theology. The heart is given, and the price is paid. When we attach, when we fall in love, we risk pain and we will always suffer for it. The cross is not the price that Jesus had to pay to talk God into loving us. It is simply where love will lead us. Jesus names the agenda. If we love, if we give ourselves to feel the pain of the world, it will crucify us. (This understanding of the crucifixion is much better than thinking of Jesus as paying some debt to an alienated God, who needs to be talked into loving us.)" -from Everything Belongs by Richard Rohr

#richard rohr #detachment #attachment #love #sacred heart #codependency #falling in love #fall in love

[srndpt2024]

"The way to arrive and remain within 'the force field of the Holy Spirit', which is one way of describing consciousness - is both very simple and very hard: you've got to remain in love, with a foundational yes to every moment. You can't risk walking around with a negative, resentful, gossipy, critical mind." 

~ Richard Rohr

#max beckmann #art #artist #richard rohr #positivity #love #yes #consciousness #ocean #mountains #faith no more #mike patton #Youtube

[dramoor]

"Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise."

~Richard Rohr  

(Photo © dramoor 2018 Ben Craig Lodge, Isle of Mull, Scotland)

#Christian #prayer #silence #gratitude #praising God #Richard Rohr #travel #Isle of Mull #scotland #Ben Craig Lodge #photography #photographers on tumblr #stained glass window

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

I believe good art, good poetry, and true mythology communicates, without our knowing it, that life is not just a series of insulated, unrelated events. The great truths—when they can be visualized in images—reveal deep patterns, and reveal that we are a part of them. That deeply heals us, and it largely happens beneath our conscious awareness. A great story pulls us inside of a cosmic story.

--Richard Rohr

#Humphrey-Weidman company #dance #dancers #Fritz Kaeser #1930s #about art #Richard rohr #image #a cosmic story #deep patterns

[bloughjobs]

#quote #Richard rohr #love #kindness #empathy #vegan #truth #union

[aowski]

“People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.” —Fr Richard Rohr 

#group #groupthink #tribalism #belonging #citizenship #control #threat #people #human #richard rohr

[kamala-laxman]

"Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but uncovering the name we've always had." Richard Rohr

#richard rohr #life #name