Center for Action and Contemplation

CAC offers self-paced, online courses to support spiritual formation. Deepen your understanding of teachings through guided study and reflection. Register now for Immortal Diamond or The Franciscan Way.

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Receive Richard Rohr’s free daily or weekly emails. Fr. Richard’s meditations explore how we can incarnate love by unveiling the image and likeness of God in all that we see and do.

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Join Richard Rohr, Jacqui Lewis, and John Dominic Crossan for a special conference, The Universal Christ: Another Name for Every Thing. March 28-31, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or online.

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A new issue of CAC's journal, Oneing, features articles on "Anger" by Richard Rohr, Barbara Brown Taylor, Joan Halifax, Barbara Holmes, Brian McLaren, Mirabai Starr, and others. Order the limited edition copy soon!

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Enjoy Richard Rohr’s homilies here or find his podcast on iTunes. Fr. Richard speaks occasionally at his local parish, Holy Family Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short sermons are recorded and made available by the CAC.

Go out into the natural world and look with God’s eyes; listen with God’s ears; know your place within God’s good creation. — Richard Rohr Read Primal and Indigenous Spirituality: Weekly Summary

All our words, dogmas, and rituals are like children playing in a sandbox before Infinite Mystery and Wonderment. — Richard Rohr Read Widening Circles

Hinduism has been described as the most tolerant of the world religions. It is much more comfortable with mystery and multiplicity than are the three Abrahamic religions. — Richard Rohr Read Infinite Forms

Hinduism emphasizes concrete practices (yogas) which allow practitioners to know things for themselves. — Richard Rohr Read Ways of Praying and Knowing

When we surrender to our own natural journey, we find authentic hope, hope that is not identified with outcomes or goals. — Richard Rohr Read Stages of Life

If you first emphasize dissimilarity and distinction, it is almost impossible to ever get back to unitive consciousness or similarity, from which most compassion proceeds. — Richard Rohr Read Parts of a Whole

How can we do “pure action”? Only by gradually detaching from all the fruits of action and doing everything purely for the love of God. — Richard Rohr Read Action and Contemplation

Prana is life’s force or energy. Pranayama is willful changing of one’s energy, often through the breath, using variations of inhalation, exhalation, and holding the breath. — Ginny Wholley Read Hinduism: Weekly Summary

“Yield and overcome, and you cannot be broken. . . . Bend and be straight.” Wisdom is as wisdom does. Awakening oneself awakens the whole world. — Surya Das Read The Way of All Things

"Our goal in the Living School is full incarnation—taking incarnation to its conclusions that there is no such thing as profane; there is no such thing as secular. It is one sacred universe, beloved of God."

"What if Christ is a name for the transcendent within of every 'thing' in the universe? What if Christ is a name for the immense spaciousness of all true Love?"

"Francis of Assisi was a master of making room for the new and letting go of that which was tired or empty."

"In the beginning there is darkness. It is the womb out of which we are born. Darkness may be the blessed dimming of ego-driven striving, a destination and condition of safety and repose."

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