Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises Of Male Initiation Quotes
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.
The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.
Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.
If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.
You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.
Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft.
With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.
True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.
I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.
Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.
Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.
People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
You can unlock spiritual things only from within.