Richard Rohr Quotes

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

Even I can't talk about myself for an hour.

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

I always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand.

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.