Kathleen

“Jesus himself always went where the pain was. Wherever there was human suffering, Jesus was concerned about it now, and about its healing now.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

“And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

“The body is like the ignored middle child in a family unit, and so now it is having its revenge through so much compulsive eating, sexuality, anorexia, and addiction, plus a wholesale disregard for the physical planet, animals, water, and healthy foods.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps