Richard Rohr Quotes

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

All experience is subjective.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Ultimately, anything is just what you make of it.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

Reality is mind-made.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...