Doing Nothing is Everything: The Creative Silence That Unlocks Your True Self
“I am not with You because I am not with myself.” Augustine
The false self loves talking. It loves narratives. It feeds off them, constantly rehashing its own misery. It loves making others responsible for what’s going wrong in my life. It loves talking about what happened to me. As Richard Rohr says,
“The false self is always the loudest, because it is built on external, fragile things that can be taken from you…
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