Richard Rohr Quotes

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

I have one room dedicated to just meditation.

I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when I do do it, I always walk away from it going, 'Why the hell am I not doing that more?'

The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.