Kathleen

“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

“It seems we are not that free to be honest, or even aware, because most of our garbage is buried in the unconscious. So it is absolutely essential that we find a spirituality that reaches to that hidden level. If not, nothing really changes.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps

“We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“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