Richard Rohr

Immortal Diamond (eBook, ePUB)

The search for our true self

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality and meaning.

In Falling Upward (and many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talks at length about the False Self and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity, especially if its preoccupations continue into the second half of life.

Here he focuses on the True Self, which he likens to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, needing to be searched for, uncovered and 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 resuscitation but transformation.

'For a growing number of us, reading Richard Rohr is like sitting around the tribal fire, listening to the village elder give words to that which we've always known to be true, we just didn't know how.'

Rob Bell, pastor and author of Love Wins

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SPCK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780281070183
• Artikelnr.: 38199462

Autorenporträt

FR RICHARD ROHR is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986, where he presently serves as Founding Director. An internationally known speaker, he teaches on such themes as adult Christian spirituality, men's spirituality, and politics and spirituality, and has published many books, including Falling Upward and Immortal Diamond (SPCK, 2012 and 2013 respectively).

Inhaltsangabe

Invitation: The Immortal Diamond of the True Self vii
Preface xvii
1 What Is ''The True Self''? 1
2 What Is ''The False Self''? 27
3 What Dies and Who Lives? 59
4 The Knife Edge of Experience 67
5 Thou Art That 95
6 If It Is True, It Is True Everywhere 127
7 Enlightenment at Gunpoint 139
8 Intimate with Everything 159
9 Love Is Stronger Than Death 175
Epilogue 187
Appendix A The True Self and the False Self 189
Appendix B A Mosaic of Metaphors 193
Appendix C Watching at the Tomb: Attitudes for Prayer 199
Appendix D Head into Heart: ''The Sacred Heart'' 203
Appendix E Adam's Breathing: Praying from the Clay 207
Appendix F Twelve Ways to Practice Resurrection Now 211
Notes 213
Bibliography 231
The Author 237
Index 239