Richard Rohr Quotes

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while there are always going to be roadblocks along the way, you're going to be just fine, as long as you learn from each setback.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

You're always just going to be who you are.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you've still got to be yourself and I feel I am.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.