Richard Rohr Quotes

I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

I almost think were I to win some small success now, I could become dictator.

I only aim at the powerful.

I'd like to build a superteam. I'd like the superteam to come to me.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that, the better. I feel everything has its way of working.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.