Richard Rohr Quotes
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.
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Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
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Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.
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I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.
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All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.
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Addiction is a terrible thing.
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No addiction is good.
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A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
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I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
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There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend he refuses to crawl And he's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross And likes to be known as the angry young man.
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From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.
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We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
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Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
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The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
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I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
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I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.
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My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
