When the small self knows that it has no meaning, no foundation apart from who it is in God, that’s radical transformation. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," September 9, 2014,
I read the above and immediately thought: "For it is in self-forgetting that one finds" from the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. In regard to those very words, a friend questioned recently what exactly one finds?
My contention is in self-forgetting one finds God...for to the self, self is all. Stripped of self, what else is there but God?
Stripped of self does not leave us with no self-esteem...there is no self to have esteem for. We do have esteem, but it is esteem for God which is esteem for all, God being love.
Self-forgetting then leaves us with love...that's all.
'I live no longer, not I' (Galatians 2:20), that is a completely different experience of the self. -- Ibid
Thank you.
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