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Immortal Diamond The Search for Our True Self

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ISBN-10: 1118303598

ISBN-13: 9781118303597

Edition: 2013

Authors: Richard Rohr

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In Falling Upward (and in many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talked at length about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity, especially if its preoccupations continue into the second half of life. But if there's a False Self, is there also a True Self? What is it? How is it found? Why does it matter? And what does it have to do with the spiritual journey? In this new book, he likens True Self to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, that must be searched for, uncovered, separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.30" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Invitation: The Immortal Diamond of the True Self
Preface
What Is "The True Self"?
What Is "The False Self"?
What Dies and Who Lives?
The Knife Edge of Experience
Thou Art That
If It Is True, It Is True Everywhere
Enlightenment at Gunpoint
Intimate with Everything
Love Is Stronger Than Death
Epilogue
The True Self and the False Self
A Mosaic of Metaphors
Watching from the Tomb: Attitudes for Prayer
Head into Heart: "The Sacred Heart"
Adam's Breathing: Praying from the Clay
Twelve Ways to Practice Resurrection Now
Notes
Bibliography
The Author
Index