Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self
Ebook
Overview
Explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality and meaning.
In Falling Upward (and many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talks at length about the False Self and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity, especially if its preoccupations continue into the second half of life.
Here he focuses on the True Self, which he likens to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, needing to be searched for, uncovered and separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not resuscitation but transformation.
’For a growing number of us, reading Richard Rohr is like sitting around the tribal fire, listening to the village elder give words to that which we’ve always known to be true, we just didn’t know how.’
Rob Bell, pastor and author of Love Wins
Immortal Diamond by bestselling author and spiritual teacher Richard Rohr explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality and meaning.
Top Highlights
“the One who shares your own deepest subjectivity—or your ‘self.’” (source)
- Title: Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self
- Author: Richard Rohr
- Publisher: SPCK Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780281070183, 9780281070176, 0281070172, 0281070180
- Resource ID: LLS:9780281070183
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-11-12T14:02:00Z
Richard Rohr is a globally recognized Franciscan friar and ecumenical teacher whose work bears witness to the deep wisdom of Christian mysticism. He is the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an educational nonprofit that introduces spiritual seekers to the Christian contemplative path of transformation. He is the author of many books, including the New York Times bestseller The Universal Christ, Falling Upward, and Breathing Under Water. His work has been featured on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, Krista Tippett’s On Being, and in The New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine.