Description
In Falling Upward (and in many of his other teachings),
Richard Rohr talks at length about ego (or the False Self)
and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity, especially if
itspreoccupations 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 book, he likens True Self 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 thatprocess is not
resuscitation but transformation.
Immortal Diamond (the title is taken from a line in a Gerard
Manley Hopkins poem) explores the deepest questions of
identity, spirituality and in Richard Rohr’s inimitable style.
ey to give us an understanding of how the heartbreaks,
disappointments and first loves of life are actually stepping
stones to the spiritualjoys that the second half of life has in
store for us.