
Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

Jesus is not an exclusive son of God, however, but the inclusive son of God, revealing what is always true everywhere and all the time.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
A.A. is the only group I know that is willing and honest enough to just tell people up front, “You are damn selfish!” Or, “Until you get beyond your massive narcissism you are never going to grow up.”
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Powerlessness, the state of the shipwrecked,
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Again and again, you must choose to fall into a love that is greater with both friends and children. It is all training for the falling into The Love that is the Greatest. All loves are a school of love, and their own kind of vital spiritual experience—until a lasting Relationship with the Real finally takes over.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Nothing just goes away in the spiritual world; all must be reconciled and accounted for.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us—and all at the same time: our opinionated head, our closed-down heart, and our defensive and defended body.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
If you are able to switch minds to the mind of Christ, your prayer has already been answered! That new mind knows, understands, accepts, and sees correctly, widely, and wisely. Its prayers are always answered because they are, in fact, the prayers of God too.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
am convinced that some people are driven to addictions to quiet their constant inner critic;
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Suffering people can love and trust a suffering God, Only a suffering God can “save” suffering people, Those who have passed across this chasm can and will save one another.