Real holiness doesn't feel like holiness; it just feels like you're dying.

-Richard Rohr

2 comments:

John said...

What does that mean?

David said...

Well, I am fairly confident it is an attempt at humor. At least I thought it was a rather humorous sentence, as did my wife.
Admitidly it is taken wildly out of context but given the statement I think it was meant to be an "attention getter."
Here's the paragraph from which it was extracted.

"Real holiness doesn't feel like holiness; it just feels like you're dying. It feels like you're losing it. And yet, you're losing it from the center, from a place where all things are One, where you can joyously, graciously let go of it. You know God's doing it when you can smile, when you can trust the letting go."