The Illusion of Our False Self
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The Illusion of Our False Self
If we could meet our flesh, our false self—if we could witness its constant unruliness and even play back an audio/video of its atrocities—we would be speechless. Appalled. If we truly saw it, we would go to extravagant measures to wrestle it back into its padded cell and make sure it stayed there. Why would we feel that way? Because the false self
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Richard Rohr, OFM.
“The false self is all the things we pretend to be and think we are. It is the pride, arrogance, title, costume, role, and degree we take to be ourselves. It is what’s passing and what’s going to die, and it is not who we are ,”
“The false self is all the things we pretend to be and think we are. It is the pride, arrogance, title, costume, role, and degree we take to be ourselves. It is what’s passing and what’s going to die, and it is not who we are ,”
Am I the problem in my relationships?
“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is,”