One of the major problems in the spiritual life is our
attachment to our own self-image—either positively or negatively created. We
confuse this idea of ourselves with who we actually are in God.
-- Fr. Richard Rohr
It seems to me that is the major problem in life itself...our attachment to our own self-image. "Relieve me of the bondage of self."
We may be born into self-image as our higher power...that may be the long journey home. We go out there looking for that which we are leaving, crash and burn (make our U-bie), and head home. Those are the fortunate few.
Not all of us crash and burn...some make that which to the reasoning mind looks like a very successful life in the material world. Some are willing to live in that which to the reasoning mind looks like utter chaos, including personal pain and degradation. Some just limp along through this life, neither happy nor unhappy...just here.
All are attached to self-image as our personal god. It is in detaching from our own [anything] that we find [everything].
Thank You.
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