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.

Richard Rohr

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• Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Power
  • Today
  • Freedom

• Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Time
  • Research
  • Psychology

• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Consciousness

• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Bad
  • Alcohol
  • Addiction

• 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.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • People
  • Mother
  • Drug

• Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • America
  • Present
  • Addiction

• 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.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Addiction

• I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Addiction

• All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Work
  • Depression
  • Mood

• Addiction is a terrible thing.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Addiction

• No addiction is good.

  

  Jose Mujica
  • Good
  • Addiction

• A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

  

  Doris Day
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Hate
  • Style
  • Depression

• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Spiritual
  • Consciousness

• Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Way
  • Consciousness

• It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

  

  Gabor Mate
  • Drug
  • Addiction

• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Consciousness

• 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.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Country
  • Moments

• But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Consciousness
  • Deal
  • Disease

• Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Life is
  • Realize
  • Presents

• ..art is made by man. His own figure is the center of all art.. .Therefore one must begin with the man himself.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Art
  • Man

• A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • God
  • Nature
  • Proud

• We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Feels
  • Compassionate
  • Altruism

• 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.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Consciousness
  • Addiction
  • Opposite