Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.”
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
the incarnational worldview, which is authentic Christianity.1 When all of you is there, you will know. When all of you is present, the banquet will begin.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are!
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
We were made to breathe the Air that always surrounds us, feeds us, and fills us. Some call it God.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Don’t dare go after your faults yourselves or you will go after the wrong thing, or more commonly a clever substitute for the real thing.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Don’t judge, just look can be our motto—and now with the very eyes of God.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
No, we do not truly comprehend any spiritual thing until we ourselves give it away. Spiritual gifts increase only by “using” them, whereas material gifts normally decrease by usage.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
It is the will itself, our stubborn and self-defeating willfulness that must be first converted and handed over. It does not surrender easily and usually only when it is demanded of us by partners, parents, children, health, or circumstances.