Raised in an evangelical-lutheran household, in rural Finland, and was christian up until the age of 15. I lost the faith short and simple. Now at 22, people like Rohr, Peter Rollins, Paul Tillich, Slavoj Zizek, Kierkegaard, Levinas, I’ve relunctantly given up the atheism. I’ve realized a spiritual life is..possible. Possible is good enough for now, I’m excited to continue my intellectual and spiritual journey. Reading has changed my life, don’t let superficial social media consume you.

This is so incredible.. I’m listening in 2023. & I can listen to this over & over. He’s totally on point.❤❤❤❤

Many evangelical Christians I experienced as departmentalised solidified people. They were rigid judgmental and often joyless. A decade ago a beautiful nun gave me a book to read by Father Richard Rohr. Initially I didn't understand his teachings. Now I do. I believe this has meant for me the dying of the ego. The letting the Trinity into my life. It has been very costly I was married to a CE priest who never prayed or studied the Bible. Sadly he hid behind those labels.."I'm a religious person, a good person and loyal.." as Richard describes so well. I divorced my ex after much abuse emotionally and psychologically...its been a long journey...transformation is essential in every human being.

All these videos helps me feel less alone thank you 🙏❤️🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷

One of the BEST spiritual talks I have ever listened to! It's 1:30 min long it took me 4 hrs to finish because I had to be rewinding and writing down every other minute what he said. Every word this man speaks is GOLDEN!

Omg! Richard is gift from God! Every person should have the good fortune. Of listening to him. He explains to you about God, the human person who’s is a spiritual being having a human experience! What wonderful thinking. My life has been better after listening to this wonderful teacher! Thank you Richard for your gift of helping us to understand about what is true and what is false. God bless you!

I've watched this video several times - it is so good. So much junk in the world, good to come back to it regularly. Thanks.

Thank God for Richard‘s talent to be able to explain this in words to the best of the ability of words to convey it. The end state that is to be pursued through contemplative prayer, that of Being, in blissful union with God, is indescribable with words.

So this must be about 2001, going by his reference to Mother Teresa dying 4 years previously. Father Richard in his prime - the earliest talk I've seen of his - and already transforming hearts and souls with his exquisite wisdom, insight and inspirational message! 💖💖💖

I’ve been working my whole life to unite my Christianity with the observable universe in a way that allows both to be true. What Rohr describes here echoes truths I’ve been granted, and assembles them into such a simple and succinct explanation. And I’m grateful to finally know that I’m not alone in my understanding of this incredible existence - and that none of us are alone at all except by choice.

I love this very much. Out of all the Catholic videos I've listened to for a while now his videos have definitely been the best.

Thanks Richard Rohr for your talks God bless your missionaries

Galatians 2:20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Thank you, Father Richard.

Thank you so much ! I’m Gratefull to have found this teaching(s) of Richard Rohr. Profound! It makes me so much aware of why i am suffering and to come to insight/awakening and it stirrs up so much hope and shalom! ❤

Explains a lot of my frustrations with my very long journey in a variety of religion styles over the past 50yrs. I feel that finally someone has given me the words I could not find. Thank you Rev Richard Rohr

There is so much wisdom in Richard’s words. I am so grateful to hear him. It’s like all the spiritual teaching I have had for many years crammed into an hour.

As I hear Fr. Richard Rohr speak it feels more and more True. A very deep insight indeed.

Absolutely love , love your message.I’ve been searching all my life for the truth as you put it and I send do much love and gratitude. As I live in Australia, I cannot attend your brilliant conferences but know I will absolutely follow your profound teaching principles. Just to let you know I am 74 years old and really hope I’m not a cranky resentful control freak ( well yes, I am at times of course). Bless you Richard, Mellaine Newman from Brisbane, Australia 🙏❤️🥰

"Thank you, God for giving us Fthr Richard for such a time as this. Through You, he has shown me how to 'BE' me at long last! Nothing compares to this Truth and Wisdom." Amen

This is all so spot on. He made me realize that I sometimes lord my vegetarianism over others. And I’m NOT a paragon of moral rectitude in other areas.

Awesome Mystic Brother. Thankyou and thank God for you. You are far from the unenlightened fundamentalists that talk against you ..if they had any insight and wisdom they would see the truth if what you are showing us...this is what I have needed to love and follow Christ and love the great mystics in all cultures and faiths...Big love...Nathanael 🙏🧘💆✝️

I've listened many times! Brilliant. thank you Richard Rohr.

This is a gift. Right here and now. I am here.

Crash course: The nature of Reality Very well explained, Richard. Thank you!

This is the most brilliantly explained example of non duality I have ever listened to. Richard's teaching is superbly clear and infallible. We are all already perfect. We have just chosen to forget it through years of cultural conditioning. I Am Always I !!

This is the BEST explanation of the false and true self I have ever heard . I am grateful to Richard Rohr for this teaching video . I will share it . I follow Keating and Centering Prayer

Yep , Richard for sure. It happens naturally when your 55 ….. we’ll in my case !!! Wish I had it when I was younger .👍👍

Thank you for posting this. I feel like my life just opened up before me.

The fact remains that Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life and that NO one can come to the Father except through Him. That's not religion, it's a relationship with Almighty God. Believe in Him today for your Salvation Friends! Time is running out!

one of the best breakdowns of Spirituality I've watched and seen explained succinctly in a long time. This is so refreshing and straight forward.

Thank you father Richard for offering this path to Liberation!

I've listened to this, probably dozens of times and each time I feel I grow a bit.

I wish I would have had this information sooner, but better late than never it has given me a better understanding in having faith and placing my trust in God. Thank you for sharing

This is the pearl of great wisdom. Richard is the gateway drug to to a richer, truer self and faith

Everything he explains makes perfect sense and I say it because I have experienced all this where I thought I was dying and then woke up and it seemed like a dream another dimension, I had suffered from extreme depression and anxiety and didn’t sleep or eat for like 3 days in a row ... I’ve also had spiritual experiences ( long story) about Jesus like there’s something he’s trying to tell me. Unfortunately my ego took over again because I didn’t understand what was happening so I came back to real life, I wish I knew all this information before, I have read Elkhart tolle the power of now and stillness speaks I can relate to all that, at one point I almost didn’t believe in God anymore because my I still had all this anxiety, fear and insecurities but then I go back and think of everything that has happened to me it was too real, no dream. I would never doubt God again, the devil tried to put things in front of me that would make me want to believe it was all in my mind so I doubt God existence, I say the devil because I DO BELIEVE THE DEVIL, THE ENEMY is real, ( I’ve also had experiences) I believe in eternity heaven and hell 100% . Be careful with what you preach don’t let people think that heaven is here and there’s no hell thats against the word of God. That being said, I believe in enlightenment, the power of just now , the higher self , God lives inside of all us ( mother Theresa) everything that’s good is God ( Jesus) God is love. We are definitely NOT our minds. I pray that the Holy Spirit can give us all the wisdom and knowledge to know and live the truth. God bless.

Thank you Richard ! Love from the Netherlands ! 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

Your story of meeting God while praying was deep 🙏❤️🙏

Thank you for this Good News Fr. Richard. ❤❤❤❤ Thank you for uploading!

That was great. Saving that to listen again.

Such a powerful message guiding us into Truth. Much gratitude to Fr Richard 😍

Thanks so much Fr Richard, there is so much time i'm looking for this teaching that is re inventing my spiritual path. God bless you !

This man is a gem to spirituality!i almost can’t believe he’s a priest he’s the perfect approachable symbolic platform of what a man of god should be!thank you

This is my favorite talk by Father Richard Rohr of all time

I have known that each of us has known right from wrong and what God really requires from birth...yet we have to rediscover t via what we call life....for me hearing it from Richard is truly a blessing beyond all words....we love you Friar Richard

This is fantastic! I will be watching this again and again and again.

What a teaching.., there are no words... grateful this video was accessible, I didn’t have to get in debt to hear this teaching.... gratitude...

Bless you Fr Richard. Just lots of love and thanks to you.

Beautiful talk! Fascinating to see a christian speaking almost in the language of the eastern religions. I guess words doesn't really matter when the message is clear. Love and blessings to you all

Stunning transformative message!

Thank you for uploading this! This is one of the best, if not THE best explanation of this concept that I've ever heard.

I was raised Catholic but separated myself from the church later on as a teenager. I felt that there was something more, but I didn't know what it was. Recently, I had a very profound "meditative experience" that shifted my perspective on reality as a whole. As someone who'd taken pride as an intellectual, I simply could not comprehend the profundity of my experience. Fortunately, I came across Paul Selig and read his books that described almost exactly what Richard Rohr was explaining in the video above. For anyone seriously considering looking into this topic further, I implore you to read "I Am the Word" by Paul Selig. I must warn you that Selig claims to be a spiritual channeler, which should send any sane person's woo woo radar off, but his teachings are sound. This philosophy is by far the most meaningful idea that I've come across in years of personal research! I cannot stress the importance of this enough!

This is absolutely amazing!! I am a non denominational christian and I connect with this teaching! I wish every church leader understood the depth of this! Thank you soo much for sharing!

I affirm: I turn my will and life over to the care of God. Bottom line - 12 step stuff. Love Richard's teachings.

So BEAUTIFUL . So nurturing. Living words. Thank you for posting Jamie.

One of the best talks I've ever listened to!!! Really bridges the gaps between different faiths. I've mostly followed Buddhist teachings, and this to me proves that any label is just that. Thanks!!!

Whenever we hear or read anything of a spiritual nature that is very moving or even jolting it’s not that you are learning something new - it’s more a remembering of something we have always known.

Amen. Amen. Gosh, AMAZING TEACHING Here. if only we were taught this much sooner. Never too late though. Blessings for the post.

So...whenever I am starting to meditate...and my cat gets next to me demanding my attention...all I have to do is pet her intentionally and pay attention to her and be present in the moment...and that will keep me in contemplation 🐈 praise God 🙏 until she lays down and I can go back to my prayer

I am so grateful for this! I have been agonizing about how to bring spirituality to a secular job and eureka your talk appeared Thank You!!!

🤍Thank Y🫥u Richard🤍 TRULY Priceless Spiritual 💎🙏

Nothing is mine Nothing belongs to me All belongings Belong as nothing belongs Everything belongs Thank you

This is the best explanation of the Way I have come across.

I love Father Richard’s work! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

Thank you so much for uploading this! I't something that everyone who calls themself a Christian should listen to...

this is very clear - one of the sanist things i have heard on KZfaq

There is nothing wrong with praying for your sick grandmother, people. It’s an act of kindness. Furthermore it is a good story he tells.

From fundamentalist Christianity; to a life of cycling, hiking, canoeing and adventure; to the realization that no matter how much I cared for myself through exercise and eating right I was going to die; to a look back to my religious tradition and that of other's to see what I might find of value; to insights compatible to those of Richard Rohr; to Richard Rohr; peace.

That is amazing. I can't listen/watch this particular lecture enough

This contemplative practice and learning to center from within seems like it is not just a shift in the state of consciousness but a shift in the very stage of consciousness. And while it is enormous to move this consciousness/unconsciousness, it is not the same thing living in this shift. Rather the reorganization is a painful path to the Real and just when the transformation begins the “I” fall into this nothingness. Presence then seems to be all there is who can stabilize this stage of consciousness. I say this because the powerlessness is so close to hopelessness something from within needs to stabilize what my ego mind cannot understand. So to me, the “who” is finding this Being in death, finding the Being is in the holes of the soul, and faith still recognizes the actual support of Presence even in true craziness. Faith, maybe after all, cannot be harmed and just as the True self cannot be harmed and then this sense of separateness dissolves into Divine awareness. Thanks for this moment, this talk by Richard Rohr and the significance of your presence.

Is this the ultimate purpose that God created us for, to discover the existence of our true selves? To come finally to the realisation that we each of us is not our false self. And to live more and more in our true self until we come to the end of this life, so after that we’ll be equipped to live eternally with God.

A true prophet. He said decades ago that the oppressed will become the oppressors and we are seeing that happening right now

This video has encouraged immensely

Great understanding of contemplation. Thanks Richard.

A wonderful man who has had a most profound effect on my life since (circa) 2008

The picture of boats floating on the river where I can deposit my thoughts were extremely helpful.

Love God with all your heart..and others as yourself. Go and practice

❤ Thank you so much Fr Richard

I listened to an exorcist priest in Ireland Pat is his name and he told about his experiences with the diabolical, but one thing struck me was his statement that before he became an exorcist he thought that Evil and the Devil was a concept a consequence to the human condition when it behaves wrongly, a kind of pay back for doing wrong. but he then said now i know that was wrong and the devil in fact is a real person... so i would be cautious thinking the devil is a concept of man or any other idea that takes away from the reality of Hell and that what we do and say will determine our eternity.. Heaven or Hell. Thank you and May God bless you all.

I wish he would say something like "I learned all this the hard way. I was a scrupulous little boy trying to please....who? dad? God? mommy? And it didn't work for me because I lived like an egotistical *ss."

Life changing, thank you

"Why would you give up control if there was not Someone you trusted you could give up control to?"

I don't know if this talk is doctrinally sound but it sure is helpful from a psychological health point of view.

Amazing talk, thanks for uploading❤️

You would have totally fit into the Episcopal church but you would not have shocked the system being one. So glad you came here the way you did for you to reach the place you have.

It's so helpful! The easiest way to do and yet to keep ourselves NRE! Just stay connected.

So much contempt for those who are not freed of our ego like him!

The problem is a lot of Churches, denominations, teachings tend to tell us and hammer in separation. We are absolutely never alone and never have been. If we believe the lie and delusion of separation then that is what we get or the reality we live out. "As Man Thinks, So Is" read the book of John it will blow away any separation

Beautiful talk Thank you Father

This is the best vid I've ever seen on this topic.

I love so much of this. But my feeling is : don't "take off" anything. Live side by side with everything. It's all human. And we are human beings.

just started reading his book 'everything belongs' and i am so shook. I wish that I had heard of him earlier but I am so thankful that I got it now. so much great wisdom

15:00....That's exactly right! Thank you Fr. Richard!!!

Two hours listening to children's confessions while a general confession would be very acceptable change is needed soon

53:15 this is when god has best chance to work at you because finally you're out of the way.

Contemplation is a gift from God that He gives as He chooses. When talking about prayer, we can't contemplate, we meditate. God brings us up to contemplation. This is too new agey.

I like what he said about inner abundance, I’ll keep that in mind.

I would like Fr. Rohr and Swami Sarvapriyananda to have a discussion. It would be very interesting.

Thank you for sharing this Jamie. This is one of the best of Rohr. It's dense, but includes the bulk of his major ideas!

Beautiful! 👍👍👍🕊🍀

I guess the best way to deal with the false self is when symptoms appear is to confront them and not allow them to influence our thinking, feeling, and actions. If there are any shortcuts, and I don't think that there are any, please let me know. It is a painful process of dealing with false self to achieve greater peace.