Richard Rohr Quotes about Pain

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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

Richard Rohr

Pain, Emotional, Spirituality

Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

Richard Rohr

Pain, Transformed

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

Richard Rohr

Pain, Giving, Suffering

"A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer". Book by Richard Rohr, 2011.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Richard Rohr

Pain, Spirituality, Great Spiritual

Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.

Richard Rohr

Pain, Hate, People

Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.

Richard Rohr

Running, Hurt, Pain