On the Threshold of Transformation Quotes

“Once you have met your own soul, you know that you are being guided. You are being led from within, and even the inexorable wheel of life is your teacher. It is the cycle of failure and renewal that slowly lowers you into the arms of a very safe God.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Shadowy material resides inside each one of us, but the man who is willing to face his own capacity for darkness will discover his deepest inner goodness and the presence of the divine within him. Some men never discover the divine presence within because they can't bring themselves to face their demons. Don't try to engineer this process or manufacture any angels. It will be done to you; just do not hate or fear the falling.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Remember this: pure literalism always leads to a decrease in meaning. Mythology and sacred texts try to lead us and allow us to have the experience for ourselves. Through our experience we discover that encounter is not only possible but desirable. So often we struggle with experiencing our experiences.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“For the man on the quest, the universe becomes enchanting-an effect that good religion accomplishes. There are no dead ends, no wasted time, no useless characters or meaningless happenings. All has meaning, and God is in all things waiting to speak and to bless. Everything belongs once a man is on his real quest and asking the right questions.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Perhaps the greatest paradox of the spiritual journey is this: wisdom and love do not come from success but from continuing failure.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“We must discover a source of inner security before we can withstand the insecurities that every life holds. Children are not ready for this, nor are teenagers, nor are young adults. Honest soul work is usually done in the second half of life, although it is forced on some much earlier through imprisonment or family tragedy.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“By "the feminine principle" I mean everything vulnerable, interior, powerless, subtle, personal, intimate, and relational. By "the masculine principle" I mean everything clear, rational, linear, ordered, in control, bounded, provable, and hard. Both the feminine and masculine are good, but they must balance each other.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“The shadow is the place we put all the suppressed and repressed parts of our lives.
+ Eventually, in every life, the suppressed and repressed parts of our selves will revolt.
+ The challenge is to acknowledge and honor the shadow but not be tyrannized by it.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Without a transcendent connection, each of us is stuck in his own little psyche, struggling to create meaning and produce an identity all by himself. When we inevitably fail at this-because we can't do it alone-we suffer shame and self-defeat. Or we try to pretend that our small universe of country, ethnicity, team, or denomination is actually the center of the world.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“God's love is perfectly free. It is not coerced by any of our good actions, nor can we lose it because of our bad actions. We are stuck with it and cannot increase-or decrease-God's love for us by anything we do or don't do.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“n the second day, God separated heaven from earth (Genesis 1:6-8). Genesis does not say that the second day was good, because it is not good to separate heaven from earth. A deep religious experience will reveal that there is only one world, one reality, and it is all "supernatural.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Two thousand years after Jesus lived here, Christians still have a hard time accepting his upside-down world, in which we are expected to work for justice on behalf of others but not to demand or expect it for ourselves (Matthew 5:6,10-12). This is one of the hardest challenges of Jesus' message. It demands an expanded heart and mind.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find?”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men

“On a man's journey, everything has its place. Our failures, heartbreaks, defeats, and victories; our wounds, dreams, and passions; our stops and our starts-all have a place in our story, and all have a place in our transformation from shadow men to real men. Everything has meaning, and everything belongs.”
― Richard Rohr, On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men