Richard Rohr Quotes

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.

If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

What do you do when it seems as if people want to stay in their pain. They have a story to tell and they tell you every chance they get. Well, believe it or not, they may like where they are. Our job is to leave them there. You can point the way out of pain, but you cannot force them to get out. You can support the move beyond their limitations, but you cannot make the move for them.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.