Richard Rohr Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.

  Richard Rohr

  Love, Spiritual, Loneliness

• In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

  Richard Rohr

  Solitude, Demand, Able

• Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Self, Solitude

• If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Prayer

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