The Illusion of Our False Self
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The Illusion of Our False Self
ego (read “false self”
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
The true self as opposed to the false self is yet another unhelpful dualism that is peddled by many in the spirituality industry who speak of this “false self” as though it were some sort of something to be rid of. If there is anything to be rid of, it is the illusion that there is something that needs to be rid of in the first place, and that ther
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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 ,”