Just Sit Still

Today's thought by Richard Rohr from his book Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self is...

Your False Self is how you define yourself outside of love, relationship, or divine union. After you have spent many years laboriously building this separate self, with all its labels and preoccupations, you are very attached to it. And why wouldn't you be? It's what you know and all you know. To move beyond it will always feels like losing or dying.

As Rohr points out earlier in his book, the False Self is not inherently bad, it's just not enough. It will only take us to a certain level of maturity in life. It was never intended to take us all the way.

This is the job of our True Self which we can only discover through opening ourselves ever more deeply to God.  To some this sounds simply esoteric and largely unattainable. Not so. It just requires a willingness to detach ourselves from our False Self shell, sit still and listen--until we hear God speaking into our center, our core, our soul...as God has promised to do.

This, like many of the greatest promises in our lives, is simple, but not necessarily easy. Nonetheless, it's worth it. But you can not take my word for it.  You can only experience it by yourself, for yourself, and in yourself.


Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For those who want to save their life will lose it..." Matthew 16:24-25