I have to say that as an utterly disappointed and disillusioned Catholic, Fr. Rohr has been the first person in over 25 years who has made it possible for me to listen to a priest without anger or dismay. Thank you for everything you say. I have become a follower. I have bought your book Falling Upward and am sharing this talk with all my catholic and non catholic friends. Thank you very much! God bless! Best thing that has happened to me this year!
Thank you for your post and your transparency.. takes a lot of courage to be real! I said once similar to mentor of mine.His response was." why is it necessary that i have a villain or savior, and that my anger was just another invitation to be saved." For me I find it a bit bittersweet that I still default to ignorance of who I am, specialty in relationship to who I feel.. Mercy
I feel exactly the same way! I began to understand these things over 35 years ago when I was part of the conservative evangelical stream (not that being in that stream of Christianity passed on any of this -- although reading Tozer early on got me onto the road). And I've been drawn deeper in over the years. I needed to leave that stream for lack of any fellowship around these things, but I sense that God, in His own way, is accelerating my understanding and experience, without a program, without specific traditions. I read and studied with a group Teresa of Avila's INTERIOR CASTLE earlier this year, and I felt like a huge amount of things fell into place. There's an ache inside to want to dive deeper. This talk by Richard Rohr would have been confusing to me just three or four years ago. Now, it feels like it is swinging the door further open.
Thanksgiving 2023. ILLINOIS, USA. This validates my need to be still and be silent today. The world is in pain. The earth is angry. I offer my SERENITY to everyone.
Thank you Richard for this discourse. I wondered if I should even write this but your words found me . Not your words but the words of the Divine who one day found me and made the statement that I was always trying to fix me but it wanted me to know that I was loved and accepted just as I was. In my present state just as I was in my imperfection and that I was the pearl of great price. I could not stop crying. Thank you for that validation. It was not just a dream but the tears of reality. Thank you.
Richard Rohr has touched me at the soul level. I left the Catholic Church many years ago because the Church became increasingly rigid and legalistic. The final blow was a sermon by a priest during which he promised to keep black children out of the busing program many years ago. The current bishop in the community where we last lived told the churches in the community that they could not have Fr. Rohr as a speaker. Fortunately for us we attended a Franciscan Church where we became friends with many kindred spirits and also I participated in Just Faith and also helped create a new group when the bishop banned Just Faith. I can say that Fr. Rohr's teaching and writing helped me find my way back into my childhood faith, minus many of the thou shalt nots.
I want more! I have been praying for the eyes of my understanding to be enlightened from the book of Ephesians - Paul's prayer. After praying this for awhile, I came across Richard Rohr. I am eating and drinking everything I can get my hands on from his teachings. It is fresh food and so healing. Being a woman and from the deep South, my Baptist upbringing almost strangled me to death. In turning 50, I have vowed to find the real truth. Thank you Richard Rohr for being the vessel that Holy Spirit is using to open the eyes of my understanding....I am getting enlightened!
I agree Lisa. 10 years ago I was a fundamentalist SDA and someone lent me a box set of Richard's cassette tapes called "New Great Themes of Scripture" which I kept in my ute for several months and then one day on a long drive I started to listen to. What an eye-opener! They led me to a whole new level of understanding, starting with how I looked at the contents of the Bible, which previously I'd regarded as literal historical truth while struggling to understand the apparent inconsistencies therein. For anyone interested in that material, Richard's later book, "Things Hidden", seems to be based on the NGToS transcript, with a few subtle updates included. For anyone teetering on the edge of fundamentality, I can recommend it as a new set of wings to try out.
Amazing!!! He is on the Path Enlightenment. I have 34 yr in AA... practiced Buddhism for 10 yrs... Christianity too...Personal Transformation Seminars... and all I can say is his message is stunning:), so right on: a Gift to our humanity...
Father Richard is truly a mystic and sees from an organic level like dear St. Frances and St. Clair. I had to go outside of Catholicism to find what I always knew was true. I've followed the paths of Buddhism and Hinduism, which helped me become a better Christian. I have many of his books and my favorites are The Universal Christ, Everything , as a 14 year member of AA have read Breathing Underwater. They have reshaped the way I experience the higher power uf my understanding. I had to let go of what I thought I knew and was taught about the Holy One. Learning how to hold the paradoxes of life
I've been watching spiritual videos for quite some time. Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Deepak Chopra, and I stumbled on to Richard Rohr. I was brought up a Methodist, and looked at Catholics as a different species, but this guy is saying the same thing as the other great spiritual leaders. I am totally amazed. Great, great stuff !
I believe that Christians should read the Bible, and not read nor listen to false prophets who speak in vague metaphors and never call sin for what it is.
@@Senkino5o your such a classical example of fundamentalist. I suppose your very literalist also. This kind of spirituality you own will die, nothing you can do about it, the ase as tour body will age and die. Cling to it and you will suffer in a way wich is not profitable.
At last, a cool, grounded, intelligent and wise modern day Christian mystic. I didn't think they made them anymore. Richard Rohr...you make me unashamed of my Catholic upbringing. Thank you...
Just from what I gather here, he seems to have greater access to the full spectrum of deep seeing/intelligence than most of the famous Buddhist and Advaita teachers.
I love all those who pray, or praying not, I pray for them.. There have been so many miracles! The other night during prayer while seated , the cat jumped at the door.On letting her in, she curled up on my heart purring ..She had never done THAT before.
Today, I desperately needed to find out the way to hear God's guidance for me... and I was led to this stunning video. Thank you Mr. Friedman and thank you Fr. Richard.
Father Rohr is one of my favourite Catholics! Along with James Martin, SJ, and Sister Joan Chittister. I only “know” these amazing humans through their books/writings/interviews/talks/podcasts, and my life is richer with them than without. My deepest gratitude for all that they are.
I've been enlightened so much. I wish our churches can also receive these teachings, they could benefit a lot of people and communities could be transformed. I thank You🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you - so refreshing and insightful. Your words are comforting and somehow feel strangely familiar - like it’s something I’ve known before but forgotten or abandoned. I appreciate the reminder.😊🙏🏼
Thank you for your excellent teaching. I'm here because a friend schooled in psychology loves your work. I'm a victim of 65 years living with alcoholism. I'm a longtime member of Al-Anon. Step 12 urges us to a commitment to Spiritual Awakening. Last summer I joined a 10-day silent Vipassana. I learned to discipline my mind to "be in the now'. We sat 10 hours each day in meditation. We learned to receive sensations from each organ. I believe it's the path to divine intervention and wellness
Finally, a prophet in our times filled with love, compassion, understanding for the paradox of living life. our very first breath and very last, say the sacred name of God. The Church could infuse its people by learning, then teach stillness of life.
@@TMPreRaff the intellect is limited. God is beyond our comprehension. He made us, so by definition, He is beyond what we can imagine or conceive. Only with the heart can we know and experience Him (through Christ), where there is no deception, not by Him
So anything that's spoken about God is a translation. Help me God to realize your loving presence in everything that I do. Thanks Richard Rohr for this invaluable reflection.
Contemplative prayer isnt new in the catholic church, Its shocking that so many Christian’s don’t know that we share mediation with the other major religions. Unfortunately Catholics don’t teach contemplative prayer to the congregation and instead keep it for those on the seminary
FATHER IS GOD. JESUS IS GOD. HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD. One name. Meditation for Buddhism is about self self self. As is any other movment not Jesus centered.
It is possible that aspects of Christian worship and prayer are unfamiliar to you. Mindful meditation on a spiritual level was inherited from Jewish practice and has been part of Christianity from inception.
Fr.Rohr is a gift to the Body of Christ. His presentation of an alternative orthodoxy is helpful. We need a new way of seeing and he challenges us to go beyond our dualistic thinking patterns. it is time for the church to re-discover their treasures of contemplative history and life style. May Richard be blessed and continue to be a blessing to many.
What"s wrong with God's way? Why a "new way"?....there is nothing new under the sun....that includes mysticism as it dripped from the serpents lips to Eve's ears....
Richard Rohr has opened my heart and mind to the meaning of living a spiritual life. I first learned of Rohr through an AA conference where I saw the book Breathing Under Water. I have read and studied that book more than a few times. He reopens my thinking every time I listen.
I want to share what was given to me in the moment of silence. It was short, sweet and very relevant it seems. what I was given was... The word of God is only that which is truly heard, otherwise it is just a word....
What a breath of fresh air this was. So glad to hear a Fr talking about spirituality and meditation. I especially loved that statement that the only atheists in India were the ones that went to catholic school.
Fr. Rohr's teaching and life has become part of my life as I receive the daily meditations from The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque. The realization that you can go to peace even for 10 seconds throughout the day and your life brings the realization of the Presence of God, enabling you to love without reservations is ultimate freedom and joy. Thank you, Fr Rohr & your team
"You first have to be free to say yes, before you say no"....profound. I've never heard do not judge taught like this...I'm totally blown away! Keeping this one☝🏼❤️❤️
Brilliant! What a breath of fresh air in Christian understanding! We all are the unconditioned, but we identify with the conditioned part of ourselves! The interesting thing is, that you can only realise that you are the unconditioned in stillness, and realise that what you are is stillness itself! The stillness that you are is unlimited, timeless, and beyond definition. As soon as we interact with the conceptual and conditioned world, we can lose the still aspect of ourselves, but it's important that it is always there, always present! The conditioned part is held within the unconditioned. There is no "I" as the unconditioned, which is our true nature! Maintain this realization and be still. Also when interacting with the conceptual and conditioned world, be aware of the stillness that you are! 😊
@@normanchu2482 Hi, It's easier to answer your question by recommending this 23 minute "You Tube" video by Rupert Spira "How can we account for collective conditioning". It is a very thorough and direct explanation, or pointer of collective and individual conditioning and of the unconditioned self. I hope it helps your understanding and realization. If you need more clarification or help, watch more videos by Rupert Spira, Eckhart Tolle, Joan Tollifson, Conscious TV etc. Best wishes....😊
💟Thank You Father Richard for being Transperency and Sharing on Divine Light🌅So , here lS my Spiritualy lnspired prayer that l daily use to Assure my Self of Where ALL of my Blessings Come from💟As God Said to ALL of us .."Seek Me Alone.. Come to Me Alone ..Look up to Me Alone ..l AM Thy 🍞 thy 🍖 thy 🍷 and thy 💦.."🌅"Be Still and Know That l in the midst of thee AM God..Be Still and Know That l in the midst of thee AM He..Be Still and Know That l in the midst of thee AM The Almighty..in Quietness and Confidence shall be thy rest"🙏
“The most important word in our title is “and.” That’s the art form!” oh, I just love this. There is so much Truth is what he says, and I am delighted to have this video play automatically after something else. I felt a big Yes. and the And is the perfect addition, Yes, and. is a good place to locate, bigger than this local self. This is exactly what the heart was craving, for this person’s “now” .
Matthew 9:37-38 "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." I believe Richard Rohr is one of the laborers sent forth by Christ to help guide us on the right path, provide us with insight, and to enrich our relationship with our Heavenly Father and with each other. God I love this guy.
This human changed my morning yesterday. I don't have a big speech to make. Let's just say repetitive prayer was taken on board. Stinking Thinking corrodes my mind. Thanks for this upload.
Thank you, Father Rohr, for an incredibly beautiful, honest, and, to my ears, deeply true take on the Divine. If Christianity were more like you, I'd go back to being a Christian.
I had a mentor in the '90s who was a Christian mystic, and after he lost me, I went quite outside the box in my thinking, and after a few of Brother Rohr's talks, I remembering the contemplative life again... To be empty enough to be filled.
Fr. Rohr is awesome, very intelligent. He is slickly repackaging Catholicism in the New Agey concepts and language popular today. Before I came back to the Church I was fascinate with the Yoga Sutras. After coming back to the Church and reading books like St. Theresa of Avila I realized that prayer can get you to Nirvana or to the experience of the elimination of duality in the mind. Prayer is meditation in the classical Buddhist sense. Thank you Father. It took me 35 years to understand that the start of a good prayer life is sitting in silence with Godly things the focus of the mind.
I'm no Christian, but I was recommended this video by a stranger during my trying times... Here are my takeaways. Big takeaway, plus some specific timestamps below: Practice letting go of obsessive repetitive thoughts so that they no longer grow and fester in your mind. Be still in silence so that you know something for yourself. (Sitting in parks has been helpful for calming the emotions.) 14:30: Use humility and patience to watch your stream of consciousness. 98% of thought patterns are repetitive and useless. Won't get you anywhere new at all. Jumping bean mind not adequate to the task. There’s someplace else to go. 20:45: With oppositional/antagonistic thinking (either or) to prove we were right, you no longer have contemplation. Too frightened and needy of being right. What characterizes an addict is some form of all-or-nothing thinking. Does not allow holding mysteries and contradictions of life with patience, freedom, and joy. 27:45: Repetitive prayers have a function of stopping your left brain from obsessive thinking. Chants, mantras, repeated prayers were discovered by many trying to go deeper. Or go into the stillness. But what do you do with your mind? 32:00: How you do anything is how you do everything. How you do it is how you do it (life). How you think about someone (him) is how you think about others (wife, children, neighbor). Petty judging, dismissing, trivializing can’t let you see it. “Do not judge.” First response to the moment, event, person - have to be free to say “yes” before you say “no.” A narcissistic dualistic mind approaches most moments starting with “no.” Then it’s hard to get back to “yes,” and you’ll never be a loving person. You’ll close down too quickly and early. 43:30: Lust for answers. Insistence on certitude, on closure, on resolution. 44:00: Western Christianity was for most people not a transformational system but a belonging system. “My belonging system is better than yours.” 47:00: Light can be both waves and particles. 49:00: Once you think you understand the great mystery, you become arrogant and ideologist, where we love our explanations of it (“God”) more than it. 53:45: Know something for yourself. 1st stage of contemplation is to sit in silence (10 minutes). 2nd stage is to practice letting go of thoughts, obsessive thoughts, compulsive emotions, not identifying with them, not feeding them. If you keep feeding negative blaming accusing paranoid thoughts, it will grow. “Don’t need that. Don’t need that. Knew who I was before that came along. I can know who I am after.”
It's incredible that this teaching is allowed in churches. It's shame that eastern Orthodox church of my country rejects such things, even warning people against meditation stating that it leads to death, calling New age such as E.Tolle evil, etc. This is truly an englightened approach so much needed in the world today. God bless.❤❤❤
Thanks for posting this. I'm always on the lookout for more of Fr Richard's talks and presentations. This is very good and sums up so much wisdom in an hour. Thanks
I run a weekly discussion forum in the local Methodist church, and we address a wide range of secular and religious topics. The two recent Richard Rohr sessions we have hosted have been extremely well received. (My only gripe is that -- although he denies it -- he times the birth of dualism with the Reformation and sort of implies a link. There was, of course, plenty of dualism in the Church of Rome long before Martin Luther came along.)
@@johne7345 how about the Garden of Eden birthed dualism, with the warning that to use your free will result in consequences you cannot fathom while in the state of grace.
@@johne7345 This comment of his I found to be key in my understanding of Protestantism. Luther himself was far more Catholic than Protestant. Perhaps the real birth of Protestantism came with Calvin and Henry VIII. Protestantism had a great fear of the unconscious and contemplation. With its incessant dualism and development of numerous denominations, is left-brained dualism. I don't know much about the Methodist denomination. It might be different than, say, the Baptist black and white thinking. The Catholic faith derives its name from the word "catholic," which means "universal." The faith is at heart contemplative. Thank you for sharing.
This was such a great openning to the power and the challenge of sitting in stillness to listen to what's wanting to be said in a way that cannot be said in words. I am so thankful for Richard Rohr and for the one who posted this for me to see today. Thank you!
Thank you, Thank you…you are our best selves…and you remind us of who we really are, sooooo needed now to be reminded of what we really are! One, just breathe in breathe out, we are all special & sacred…know we are all one …and that’s how we should treat all of ourselves when we meet 🙏
I have found similar Truth expressed in my association with Unity World Ministries. It is not necessary to agree with any particular dogma but is understood to be practical Christianity. Thank you Father Roger for contributing to an Awakened human consciousness. Man will grow into the seed that is planted in the field of manifestation. “On Earth as in Heaven
This man is the best thing that has happened to the Catholic Church in decades, it hasn’t steered me back but I listen “religiously” to his inspiring talks and read his CAC newsletter each day. He is incredibly wise and highly intelligent but speaks authentically from the heart.
This deeply spiritual man has rekindled basic spiritual experience as taught, through the nondiscrimatory teaching of a wise prophet from the land of Galilee.
Seeing God in all things and being a contemplative in action; quite the Ignatian this Franciscan brother. Joking aside, I feel blessed having listened to this. Grateful.
I was at the part where some people didn't like him in certain areas or ways well I just love you for who you are you are true blue and telling the truth which is the way the only way, I just watched you on proving God dwells within us and was absolutely wonderful and I didn't know who you were and the Lord had this video up next, Yeah God , your voice and everything is beautiful and God led me to you, keep on keeping on and thank you and God from all of me😊
Father Rhor is the 💣 Bomb! I’ve been listening to him since 1989. I love his old stuff to. God bless you Father Rhor, and thanks a ton in helping shape my mind.Also, the sermon couldn’t get any better.
I find this to to be profoundly moving to me as a part mystic (4w5). Thank you, Richard for research and renewal of awareness of the contemplative tradition.
I have to say that as an utterly disappointed and disillusioned Catholic, Fr. Rohr has been the first person in over 25 years who has made it possible for me to listen to a priest without anger or dismay. Thank you for everything you say. I have become a follower. I have bought your book Falling Upward and am sharing this talk with all my catholic and non catholic friends. Thank you very much! God bless! Best thing that has happened to me this year!
Thank you for your post and your transparency.. takes a lot of courage to be real!
I said once similar to mentor of mine.His response was." why is it necessary that i have a villain or savior, and that my anger was just another invitation to be saved."
For me I find it a bit bittersweet that I still default to ignorance of who I am, specialty in relationship to who I feel..
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Disappointed, disillusioned etc for me as well. Have you read books by Father Gregory Boyle? He developed Homeboy Industries in L.A.
Do you consider yourself a feminist?
Thank you for these old videos. It’s wonderful to hear Richards comforting voice sharing deep truths
Richard Rohr re- awakened me to the mystery of Christianity. After 50 years seeking the truth it is good to come home 🙏
Vincent Falone Keep on brother
I've been searching for truth to only realize that "Now" is truth!!
I am poor in spirit but now I'm enlighted
Powerlessness.
I feel exactly the same way! I began to understand these things over 35 years ago when I was part of the conservative evangelical stream (not that being in that stream of Christianity passed on any of this -- although reading Tozer early on got me onto the road). And I've been drawn deeper in over the years. I needed to leave that stream for lack of any fellowship around these things, but I sense that God, in His own way, is accelerating my understanding and experience, without a program, without specific traditions. I read and studied with a group Teresa of Avila's INTERIOR CASTLE earlier this year, and I felt like a huge amount of things fell into place. There's an ache inside to want to dive deeper. This talk by Richard Rohr would have been confusing to me just three or four years ago. Now, it feels like it is swinging the door further open.
Thanksgiving 2023. ILLINOIS, USA. This validates my need to be still and be silent today. The world is in pain. The earth is angry. I offer my SERENITY to everyone.
I found this Christmas 2023. Close in time and worthy of it
Thank you Father Richard. I am beyond grateful for your knowledge and understanding, and your sharing.
Thank you Richard for this discourse. I wondered if I should even write this but your words found me . Not your words but the words of the Divine who one day found me and made the statement that I was always trying to fix me but it wanted me to know that I was loved and accepted just as I was. In my present state just as I was in my imperfection and that I was the pearl of great price. I could not stop crying. Thank you for that validation. It was not just a dream but the tears of reality. Thank you.
The name of God is breath. This is profound truth that I recognized immediately. Thank you brother. Thank you God. Now is the Kingdom.
Richard Rohr has touched me at the soul level. I left the Catholic Church many years ago because the Church became increasingly rigid and legalistic. The final blow was a sermon by a priest during which he promised to keep black children out of the busing program many years ago. The current bishop in the community where we last lived told the churches in the community that they could not have Fr. Rohr as a speaker. Fortunately for us we attended a Franciscan Church where we became friends with many kindred spirits and also I participated in Just Faith and also helped create a new group when the bishop banned Just Faith. I can say that Fr. Rohr's teaching and writing helped me find my way back into my childhood faith, minus many of the thou shalt nots.
This is fantastic!!! It's refreshing to see someone in the Roman Catholic tradition so enlightened.
I want more! I have been praying for the eyes of my understanding to be enlightened from the book of Ephesians - Paul's prayer. After praying this for awhile, I came across Richard Rohr. I am eating and drinking everything I can get my hands on from his teachings. It is fresh food and so healing. Being a woman and from the deep South, my Baptist upbringing almost strangled me to death. In turning 50, I have vowed to find the real truth. Thank you Richard Rohr for being the vessel that Holy Spirit is using to open the eyes of my understanding....I am getting enlightened!
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So well said! I agree!
I agree Lisa. 10 years ago I was a fundamentalist SDA and someone lent me a box set of Richard's cassette tapes called "New Great Themes of Scripture" which I kept in my ute for several months and then one day on a long drive I started to listen to. What an eye-opener! They led me to a whole new level of understanding, starting with how I looked at the contents of the Bible, which previously I'd regarded as literal historical truth while struggling to understand the apparent inconsistencies therein.
For anyone interested in that material, Richard's later book, "Things Hidden", seems to be based on the NGToS transcript, with a few subtle updates included. For anyone teetering on the edge of fundamentality, I can recommend it as a new set of wings to try out.
Hi I hope you are continuing on the way-advent blesssigs :)
@@anthonycook8703 Thank you.
Amazing!!! He is on the Path Enlightenment. I have 34 yr in AA... practiced Buddhism for 10 yrs... Christianity too...Personal Transformation Seminars... and all I can say is his message is stunning:), so right on: a Gift to our humanity...
Father Richard is truly a mystic and sees from an organic level like dear St. Frances and St. Clair. I had to go outside of Catholicism to find what I always knew was true. I've followed the paths of Buddhism and Hinduism, which helped me become a better Christian. I have many of his books and my favorites are The Universal Christ, Everything , as a 14 year member of AA have read Breathing Underwater. They have reshaped the way I experience the higher power uf my understanding. I had to let go of what I thought I knew and was taught about the Holy One. Learning how to hold the paradoxes of life
Thank you Father Richard! ❤
Thank you for a beautiful response, Lynn. Father Richard is a gift 🕊️
21 years here. He shares the action of the steps
The world needs to hear Richard Rohr ...
"98% of our thoughts are repetitive and useless."
I have to agree.
I love silence. silence is the language of God. I want to go deeper into this silence.
Āāā mèn!
I've been watching spiritual videos for quite some time. Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Deepak Chopra, and I stumbled on to Richard Rohr. I was brought up a Methodist, and looked at Catholics as a different species, but this guy is saying the same thing as the other great spiritual leaders. I am totally amazed. Great, great stuff !
Mooji is a good good teacher!!
I believe that Christians should read the Bible, and not read nor listen to false prophets who speak in vague metaphors and never call sin for what it is.
@@Senkino5o your such a classical example of fundamentalist.
I suppose your very literalist also.
This kind of spirituality you own will die, nothing you can do about it, the ase as tour body will age and die.
Cling to it and you will suffer in a way wich is not profitable.
Check Anthony De Mello
At last, a cool, grounded, intelligent and wise modern day Christian mystic. I didn't think they made them anymore. Richard Rohr...you make me unashamed of my Catholic upbringing. Thank you...
Christopher Aguilar check out Ted Nottingham he's amazing
Just from what I gather here, he seems to have greater access to the full spectrum of deep seeing/intelligence than most of the famous Buddhist and Advaita teachers.
@@Kimoto504 yes, because it is Christian
@The Bridge, Inc. - IT Department - Allen Nichols agreed
Christopher- ditto. and well said.
Brilliant, Beautiful, Honest message straight from the heart 💕 much love brother Richard
I love all those who pray, or praying not, I pray for them..
There have been so many miracles!
The other night during prayer while seated , the cat jumped at the door.On letting her in, she curled up on my heart purring ..She had never done THAT before.
Today, I desperately needed to find out the way to hear God's guidance for me... and I was led to this stunning video. Thank you Mr. Friedman and thank you Fr. Richard.
Father Rohr is one of my favourite Catholics! Along with James Martin, SJ, and Sister Joan Chittister. I only “know” these amazing humans through their books/writings/interviews/talks/podcasts, and my life is richer with them than without. My deepest gratitude for all that they are.
Scripture warrants is not to call any man father except for God himself
@@Misorganic1oops, i guess all of us have sinned when addressing our dad?
@@Misorganic1 oh, brother. Here we go with dogma... Open your mind a little bit, then meanings in your big book will reveal themselves to you.
James Martin is pro lgbt
I've been enlightened so much. I wish our churches can also receive these teachings, they could benefit a lot of people and communities could be transformed. I thank You🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you - so refreshing and insightful. Your words are comforting and somehow feel strangely familiar - like it’s something I’ve known before but forgotten or abandoned. I appreciate the reminder.😊🙏🏼
have listened twice, when R.R. reach the Holy Name, I am in tears of bliss! Glory be Gods silent language! ❤! Greetings from Oslo .
Thank you for your excellent teaching. I'm here because a friend schooled in psychology loves your work. I'm a victim of 65 years living with alcoholism. I'm a longtime member of Al-Anon. Step 12 urges us to a commitment to Spiritual Awakening. Last summer I joined a 10-day silent Vipassana. I learned to discipline my mind to "be in the now'. We sat 10 hours each day in meditation. We learned to receive sensations from each organ. I believe it's the path to divine intervention and wellness
Finally, a prophet in our times filled with love, compassion, understanding for the paradox of living life. our very first breath and very last, say the sacred name of God. The Church could infuse its people by learning, then teach stillness of life.
“God refuses to be known by the intellect. God only allows Himself to be loved by the heart.”
Because it's easier to be deceptive that way.
@@TMPreRaff the intellect is limited. God is beyond our comprehension. He made us, so by definition, He is beyond what we can imagine or conceive. Only with the heart can we know and experience Him (through Christ), where there is no deception, not by Him
heart first
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This is the best. To the poster, thank you so much for not interrupting it with ads. Thank you
So anything that's spoken about God is a translation. Help me God to realize your loving presence in everything that I do. Thanks Richard Rohr for this invaluable reflection.
Every christian should watch this and take it into account. This line of thought is the future for all of us 🙏🙏
Amazing. He's teaching Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation under another name. God is the same no matter what name we call him.
Contemplative prayer isnt new in the catholic church, Its shocking that so many Christian’s don’t know that we share mediation with the other major religions. Unfortunately Catholics don’t teach contemplative prayer to the congregation and instead keep it for those on the seminary
FATHER IS GOD. JESUS IS GOD. HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD. One name. Meditation for Buddhism is about self self self. As is any other movment not Jesus centered.
It is possible that aspects of Christian worship and prayer are unfamiliar to you.
Mindful meditation on a spiritual level was inherited from Jewish practice and has been part of Christianity from inception.
blinkie1114 word.
Not the same God at all. You cannot get to God without going through and believing in Jesus Christ.
HE is with us every breath of our lives
Thank God we still have some holy priests who enlightened folks.
Fr.Rohr is a gift to the Body of Christ. His presentation of an alternative orthodoxy is helpful. We need a new way of seeing and he challenges us to go beyond our dualistic thinking patterns. it is time for the church to re-discover their treasures of contemplative history and life style. May Richard be blessed and continue to be a blessing to many.
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What"s wrong with God's way? Why a "new way"?....there is nothing new under the sun....that includes mysticism as it dripped from the serpents lips to Eve's ears....
One of my dreams is someday to have the honor to meet Fr Richard. God bless the persons who have made accesible this video. Thanks 🙏
Richard Rohr has opened my heart and mind to the meaning of living a spiritual life. I first learned of Rohr through an AA conference where I saw the book Breathing Under Water. I have read and studied that book more than a few times. He reopens my thinking every time I listen.
Thank you Richard....still! ...and I doze...but now know?
I wish I found him decades earlier, such an inspirational thought-leader!
I want to share what was given to me in the moment of silence. It was short, sweet and very relevant it seems. what I was given was... The word of God is only that which is truly heard, otherwise it is just a word....
Thank the Lord, that there are these mystics who are able to speak to the real essence of the Spiritual life.
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What a breath of fresh air this was. So glad to hear a Fr talking about spirituality and meditation. I especially loved that statement that the only atheists in India were the ones that went to catholic school.
Fr Rohr is just a persuasive a speaker as he is a writer.
Thank you for posting; it's a pleasure to hear him preach.
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Fr. Rohr's teaching and life has become part of my life as I receive the daily meditations from The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque. The realization that you can go to peace even for 10 seconds throughout the day and your life brings the realization of the Presence of God, enabling you to love without reservations is ultimate freedom and joy. Thank you, Fr Rohr & your team
"You first have to be free to say yes, before you say no"....profound. I've never heard do not judge taught like this...I'm totally blown away! Keeping this one☝🏼❤️❤️
Brilliant! What a breath of fresh air in Christian understanding! We all are the unconditioned, but we identify with the conditioned part of ourselves! The interesting thing is, that you can only realise that you are the unconditioned in stillness, and realise that what you are is stillness itself! The stillness that you are is unlimited, timeless, and beyond definition. As soon as we interact with the conceptual and conditioned world, we can lose the still aspect of ourselves, but it's important that it is always there, always present! The conditioned part is held within the unconditioned. There is no "I" as the unconditioned, which is our true nature!
Maintain this realization and be still. Also when interacting with the conceptual and conditioned world, be aware of the stillness that you are! 😊
Coen Ter Haar what do you mean by unconditioned and conditioned self?
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Hi,
It's easier to answer your question by recommending this 23 minute "You Tube" video by Rupert Spira "How can we account for collective conditioning".
It is a very thorough and direct explanation, or pointer of collective and individual conditioning and of the unconditioned self.
I hope it helps your understanding and realization.
If you need more clarification or help, watch more videos by Rupert Spira, Eckhart Tolle, Joan Tollifson, Conscious TV etc.
Best wishes....😊
💟Thank You Father Richard for being Transperency and Sharing on Divine Light🌅So , here lS my Spiritualy lnspired prayer that l daily use to Assure my Self of Where ALL of my Blessings Come from💟As God Said to ALL of us .."Seek Me Alone.. Come to Me Alone ..Look up to Me Alone ..l AM Thy 🍞 thy 🍖 thy 🍷 and thy 💦.."🌅"Be Still and Know That l in the midst of thee AM God..Be Still and Know That l in the midst of thee AM He..Be Still and Know That l in the midst of thee AM The Almighty..in Quietness and Confidence shall be thy rest"🙏
“The most important word in our title is “and.” That’s the art form!”
oh, I just love this. There is so much Truth is what he says,
and I am delighted to have this video play automatically after something else. I felt a big Yes.
and the And is the perfect addition, Yes, and. is a good place to locate, bigger than this local self. This is exactly what the heart was craving, for this person’s “now” .
Fr Rohr has so much courage - and so much love - what a blessing it has been to live in his life
Matthew 9:37-38 "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." I believe Richard Rohr is one of the laborers sent forth by Christ to help guide us on the right path, provide us with insight, and to enrich our relationship with our Heavenly Father and with each other. God I love this guy.
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Thank you Richard Rohr. This made me laugh, and as a minister's daughter you talked about the questions I often asked. I feel the truth here.
What a blessing it was today to find this video. Thank you. 💜
This human changed my morning yesterday. I don't have a big speech to make. Let's just say repetitive prayer was taken on board. Stinking Thinking corrodes my mind. Thanks for this upload.
Thank you, Father Rohr, for an incredibly beautiful, honest, and, to my ears, deeply true take on the Divine. If Christianity were more like you, I'd go back to being a Christian.
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God bless you Richard, a mystic bringing back the tradition of Christian contemplative prayer and meditation.
This is wonderful. Thank you. ❤
So much healing in hearing all of this
Thank you for your words of truth. Just what I’ve been searching for. ❤️
I had a mentor in the '90s who was a Christian mystic, and after he lost me, I went quite outside the box in my thinking, and after a few of Brother Rohr's talks, I remembering the contemplative life again... To be empty enough to be filled.
Fr. Rohr is awesome, very intelligent. He is slickly repackaging Catholicism in the New Agey concepts and language popular today. Before I came back to the Church I was fascinate with the Yoga Sutras. After coming back to the Church and reading books like St. Theresa of Avila I realized that prayer can get you to Nirvana or to the experience of the elimination of duality in the mind. Prayer is meditation in the classical Buddhist sense.
Thank you Father. It took me 35 years to understand that the start of a good prayer life is sitting in silence with Godly things the focus of the mind.
I'm no Christian, but I was recommended this video by a stranger during my trying times... Here are my takeaways.
Big takeaway, plus some specific timestamps below: Practice letting go of obsessive repetitive thoughts so that they no longer grow and fester in your mind. Be still in silence so that you know something for yourself. (Sitting in parks has been helpful for calming the emotions.)
14:30: Use humility and patience to watch your stream of consciousness. 98% of thought patterns are repetitive and useless. Won't get you anywhere new at all.
Jumping bean mind not adequate to the task. There’s someplace else to go.
20:45: With oppositional/antagonistic thinking (either or) to prove we were right, you no longer have contemplation. Too frightened and needy of being right. What characterizes an addict is some form of all-or-nothing thinking. Does not allow holding mysteries and contradictions of life with patience, freedom, and joy.
27:45: Repetitive prayers have a function of stopping your left brain from obsessive thinking. Chants, mantras, repeated prayers were discovered by many trying to go deeper. Or go into the stillness. But what do you do with your mind?
32:00: How you do anything is how you do everything. How you do it is how you do it (life). How you think about someone (him) is how you think about others (wife, children, neighbor). Petty judging, dismissing, trivializing can’t let you see it. “Do not judge.” First response to the moment, event, person - have to be free to say “yes” before you say “no.” A narcissistic dualistic mind approaches most moments starting with “no.” Then it’s hard to get back to “yes,” and you’ll never be a loving person. You’ll close down too quickly and early.
43:30: Lust for answers. Insistence on certitude, on closure, on resolution.
44:00: Western Christianity was for most people not a transformational system but a belonging system. “My belonging system is better than yours.”
47:00: Light can be both waves and particles.
49:00: Once you think you understand the great mystery, you become arrogant and ideologist, where we love our explanations of it (“God”) more than it.
53:45: Know something for yourself. 1st stage of contemplation is to sit in silence (10 minutes). 2nd stage is to practice letting go of thoughts, obsessive thoughts, compulsive emotions, not identifying with them, not feeding them. If you keep feeding negative blaming accusing paranoid thoughts, it will grow.
“Don’t need that. Don’t need that. Knew who I was before that came along. I can know who I am after.”
Thanks for sharing
Thanks, this will be very useful! 🙏
Father Richard through his emailed meditations continually feeds my soul! It's as if he knew what I needed spiritually ! Thank you dear counsellor!
I too love the daily email links and agree that it's like he knows what I need/where I am spiritually at the moment.
how do u get the daily emails---i listen to him alot and they did a study of his at my Episcopal church
I was going to ask the same question I would say go into his website ☺
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It's incredible that this teaching is allowed in churches. It's shame that eastern Orthodox church of my country rejects such things, even warning people against meditation stating that it leads to death, calling New age such as E.Tolle evil, etc. This is truly an englightened approach so much needed in the world today. God bless.❤❤❤
Thanks for posting this. I'm always on the lookout for more of Fr Richard's talks and presentations. This is very good and sums up so much wisdom in an hour. Thanks
You're most welcome. God bless.
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I run a weekly discussion forum in the local Methodist church, and we address a wide range of secular and religious topics. The two recent Richard Rohr sessions we have hosted have been extremely well received.
(My only gripe is that -- although he denies it -- he times the birth of dualism with the Reformation and sort of implies a link. There was, of course, plenty of dualism in the Church of Rome long before Martin Luther came along.)
@@johne7345 how about the Garden of Eden birthed dualism, with the warning that to use your free will result in consequences you cannot fathom while in the state of grace.
@@johne7345 This comment of his I found to be key in my understanding of Protestantism. Luther himself was far more Catholic than Protestant. Perhaps the real birth of Protestantism came with Calvin and Henry VIII.
Protestantism had a great fear of the unconscious and contemplation. With its incessant dualism and development of numerous denominations, is left-brained dualism. I don't know much about the Methodist denomination. It might be different than, say, the Baptist black and white thinking.
The Catholic faith derives its name from the word "catholic," which means "universal." The faith is at heart contemplative.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks some of the best sermons I've ever heard thank you again
This was such a great openning to the power and the challenge of sitting in stillness to listen to what's wanting to be said in a way that cannot be said in words. I am so thankful for Richard Rohr and for the one who posted this for me to see today. Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for posting, I need it to hear this
Thank you, Thank you…you are our best selves…and you remind us of who we really are, sooooo needed now to be reminded of what we really are!
One, just breathe in breathe out, we are all special & sacred…know we are all one …and that’s how we should treat all of ourselves when we meet
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I have found similar Truth expressed in my association with Unity World Ministries. It is not necessary to agree with any particular dogma but is understood to be practical Christianity.
Thank you Father Roger for contributing to an Awakened human consciousness. Man will grow into the seed that is planted in the field of manifestation. “On Earth as in Heaven
One of my favourite videos on the internet. So relevant.
Wow. Absolutely amazing talk. I enjoyed it. Thank you and I love being a Catholic even more.
The kingdom of God is within you! Thanks Rev.
This man is the best thing that has happened to the Catholic Church in decades, it hasn’t steered me back but I listen “religiously” to his inspiring talks and read his CAC newsletter each day. He is incredibly wise and highly intelligent but speaks authentically from the heart.
This deeply spiritual man has rekindled basic spiritual experience as taught, through the nondiscrimatory teaching of a wise prophet from the land of Galilee.
WHAT A GIFT ! yes God/god is"given" in each breath--Thank you
Seeing God in all things and being a contemplative in action; quite the Ignatian this Franciscan brother. Joking aside, I feel blessed having listened to this. Grateful.
So happy to have found this video, this man, while listening to Father Thomas Keating. Brilliant. Thank you for posting!
This is my fourth pass at listening to this video and each time I discover some new and delightful.
This is so awesome!! I'll never be the same! 😇😱🙏
The Center for Action and Contemplation. first time I have heard if it.
Beautiful. Has the ring of Truth.
Now this is pure truth, thank you Holy Spirit......deeeep!❤🙂
The middle of it was very profound! I Love Father Rorh.
All that I can say is THANK YOU.
Thank you for this posting. Absolutely a pearl!
Im COGIC but was introduced to Ft Rohr through a wonderful co-worker of mine. I absolutely loved his message and how he delivered it
Richard is such a blessing to all of us.
Wow. What a gift. Thank you for sharing.
Let us face our nakedness in truth and honesty as Fr Richard challenges us to enter into stillness and contemplation through his inspiring words
Regardless of any races or any countries everyone knows wordly's love but can't fathom God eternal love for you.
Thank you for making this freely available, great talk, great man 😇🧡🤗🙏
Truth in completeness everyone should know and stop judgement of others and themselves.
I was at the part where some people didn't like him in certain areas or ways well I just love you for who you are you are true blue and telling the truth which is the way the only way, I just watched you on proving God dwells within us and was absolutely wonderful and I didn't know who you were and the Lord had this video up next, Yeah God , your voice and everything is beautiful and God led me to you, keep on keeping on and thank you and God from all of me😊
Father Rhor is the 💣 Bomb! I’ve been listening to him since 1989. I love his old stuff to. God bless you Father Rhor, and thanks a ton in helping shape my mind.Also, the sermon couldn’t get any better.
Wow! Let God be God… how often we deny deep truths to tickle our ears and stroke our egos. Thank you for such depth.
Beautiful thank you. I studied advaita (non duality) for thirty years and it is through this that I found the Christ within.
This talk especially the last bit changed my life
“knowing is always balanced by UNKNOWING” 💡💡💡💡
I find this to to be profoundly moving to me as a part mystic (4w5).
Thank you, Richard for research and renewal of awareness of the contemplative tradition.
Simple, accessible, and practical. What a great use of my time to hear this gentle, humble talk calling us to contemplate, not just be introverts.
This was indeed very powerful....❤️❤️❤️
Thanks 🙏🏽
Thank you for posting this amazing truth
Rich you are great commentator...a load of darn fun to listen to...and you inspire me ....
Such a wonderful and profound teaching. Blessings