Richard Rohr Quotes

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

I am a part and parcel of God.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.