Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Center for Action and Contemplation - Father Richard Rohr's Meditation "Your Inner Destiny" for Sunday, 8 June 2014

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States - Center for Action and Contemplation - Father Richard Rohr's Meditation "Your Inner Destiny" for Sunday, 8 June 2014
Your True Self is who you are in God and who God is in you.

Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
"Becoming Who You Are"
"Your Inner Destiny"
Sunday, 8 June 2014

Now that we have run through our quick overview of the Enneagram these past two weeks, let’s reconnect this tool with our foundational theme of the True Self and the False Self. Your Enneagram type is your concocted False Self, and yet the mercy of God uses it to bring you to a deep experience of your foundational/metaphysical/unloseable identity as an eternal child of God.
Your True Self is who you are in God and who God is in you. You can never really lose your soul; you can only fail to realize it, which is indeed the greatest of losses—to have it, but not have it (Matthew 16:26). Your essence, your exact “thisness,” will never appear again in another incarnation. As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Your True Self and your soul come from the Manufacturer—“hidden inside the box,” as the commercials say.
In some ways, the soul and the True Self are interchangeable in the sense of revealing that “eternal” part of you, the part of you that knows the truth. However, I must add that the True Self is probably larger than the soul, because it includes Spirit and embodiment, too. Both reveal to you the immortal diamond that God has planted within you, and they often operate as one.
You (and every other created thing) begin with a divine DNA, an inner destiny as it were, an absolute core that knows the truth about you, a blueprint tucked away in the cellar of your being, an Imago Dei that begs to be allowed, to be fulfilled, and to show itself. “It is the Holy Spirit poured into your heart, and it has been given to you” (Romans 5:5). Your True Self is what makes you, you.
Adapted from Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self, pages 16-17
Gateway to Silence: Love is the presence of God within me.
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