The Naked Now Quotes

“Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind.”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“ALL SAYING MUST BE BALANCED BY UNSAYING, and knowing must be humbled by unknowing. Without this balance, religion invariably becomes arrogant, exclusionary, and even violent.”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“Why do we — including people at the highest levels of church, education, and state — appear to be so imprisoned in ourselves? In effect, why have the world religions stopped doing their job of spiritually transforming people and cultures? Why have we told people they must “believe” in God in order to experience God, when God is clearly at work in ways that many “eyes”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“Asking for something from God does not mean talking God into it; it means an awakening of the gift within ourselves.”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“We are saying here, as religion historically did, that you need a whole new “head” (as in Romans 12:2). You need a new motherboard, changing the actual hardware that processes your experiences. It is not merely a change of morals, group affiliation, or belief systems, but a change at the very heart of the way that you receive, hear, and pass on your own experience. This is transformative religion. We need true sanctity if this world is to thrive and Christianity is to be something more than a protector of privilege, fear-based thinking, and the status quo. We need what Paul calls “a new mind,” which is the result of a “spiritual revolution” (Ephesians 4:23).”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

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― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

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― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

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― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See