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Immortal Diamond – Thou Art Thou, pt.2
God’s agapic love to and for all things is also his erotic love of moving all things towards himself, and our agapic self-abandonment of all things to God is our erotic acquisition of him.
Immortal Diamond – Thou Art Thou, pt.1
The existential gap between the Divine Reality and our Human Condition is closed only through the union of the Human and the Divine in Jesus Christ. And in the closing of that gap, we find our True Self.
Immortal Diamond – The Knife Edge of Experience
When we reduce Jesus to simply a historical figure, then we miss out on the greater understanding of the universal Christ in whom we all live, and move, and have our being.
Immortal Diamond – What Dies and Who Lives?
If your religion does not transform your consciousness to one of compassion, it is more of a problem than a solution.
Immortal Diamond – What is the False Self? pt.2
One of the great falsehoods of the False Self is the individuality of the self – that each of us is wholly unique, special, superior, and self-adequate
Immortal Diamond – What is the False Self?, pt.1
The false self is the “trappings of the ego that we all use to get us through an ordinary day.” It is the identifying characteristics you share when meeting someone for the first time.
Immortal Diamond – What is the True Self?
The discovery of our True Self is found in our discovery of the Kingdom of Heaven as described by Jesus.
Immortal Diamond – The Invitation
Rohr speaks to us on Easter morning, in the light of the Resurrection of Christ in which death and evil and victimhood are left behind and a new, transformed, and resurrected creation has arisen.
Immortal Diamond – Introduction
This book is about transformation and how the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not simply a historical event, but, more importantly, is a present reality in which we can participate.
Ecclesiastes 6 – No Satisfaction
In our striving to obtain whatever we believe will give contentment and happiness, we will lose that contentment and happiness. We will never obtain enough to bring us the happiness that we ultimately seek.
Ecclesiastes 5 – Vows Before God
The Speaker is concerned with our making promises to God (i.e. vows) that we cannot satisfy. It is better not to vow at all than to vow and not fulfill. Thus the Speaker tells us that vows are not to be taken lightly or inadvisably.
Ecclesiastes 4 – Insouciance
When the Speaker addresses oppression, he simply describes the situation with no contemporaneous recognition of any role that he could play to address the oppression that he sees.