"Most people have not been offered a different mind, only different behaviors, beliefs, and belonging systems. They do not necessarily nourish us, much less transform us. But they invariably secure us and invalidate us where we already are. They are what I and others have called "the task of the first half of Life."
Required behaviors and beliefs are good and necessary to get us started. But when we invest in them too heavily, they soon become places to hide.... If we hold on to them too tightly and for too long, we never internalize values and strengths - we never grow up.
- Richard Rohr. The Naked Now.
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