To want to be the centre of everything is a great human delusion – the delusion of Lucifer to want to be like God. Only God has no boundaries; only God is the centre of everything. God is that whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. But if we think of ourselves or feel ourselves like this, we are deluded and dangerous. It’s a pathological state, a mental illness. You might end up in a psychiatric ward, or you might end up as a serial killer or mass murderer, or you might end up as a dictator of a society. We need boundaries in order to move beyond them into the boundless. The purpose of finding oneself is to move from a world in which we are the centre of reality, think we are the centre of reality, to the real world, which is God, which is truly boundless.
Laurence Freeman, OSB
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