Bill

“If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.”
― Richard Rohr, From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality

“All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them. There are shared and agreed-upon addictions in every culture and every institution. These are often the hardest to heal because they do not look like addictions because we have all agreed to be compulsive about the same things and blind to the same problems. The Gospel exposes those lies in every culture: The American addiction to oil, war, and empire; the church’s addiction to its own absolute exceptionalism; the poor person’s addiction to powerlessness and victimhood; the white person’s addiction to superiority; the wealthy person’s addiction to entitlement.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.”
― Richard Rohr, From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality

“They are comfortable knowing, and they are comfortable not knowing. They can care and not care—without guilt or shame. They can act without success because they have named their fear of failure. They do not need to affirm or deny, judge or ignore. But they are free to do all of them with impunity. A saint is invincible.”
― Richard Rohr, From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality