A Spring Within Us Quotes

“Every moment is not obvious as God, as grace; it looks quite simply like another ordinary moment. But our willingness to recognize it as gratuitous—as a free gift, as self-revelatory, as a possibility—allows it to be that way. [...] God and grace become apparent as a gift in each moment. And those who learn how to receive gifts keep receiving further gifts. “From God’s fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” as John 1:16 puts it.”
― Richard Rohr, A Spring Within Us: A Book of Daily Meditations

“We don’t need to be afraid of the word “mystic.” It simply means one who has moved from mere belief or belonging systems about God to actual inner experience.”
― Richard Rohr, A Spring Within Us: A Book of Daily Meditations

“May each of us be so fortunate as to be overtaken by God in the midst of little things. May we each be so blessed as to be finished off by God, swooping down from above or welling up from beneath, to extinguish the illusion of separateness that perpetuates our fears. May we, in having our illusory, separate self slain by God, be born into a new and true awareness of who we really are: one with God forever. May we continue on in this true awareness, seeing in each and every little thing we see, the fullness of God’s presence in our lives. May we also be someone in whose presence others are better able to recognize God’s presence in their lives, so that they, too, might know the freedom of the children of God.9 Gateway to Silence: That all may be”
― Richard Rohr, A Spring Within Us: A Year of Daily Meditations