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Rohr's Personal Integrity

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Rohr uses this quote to explain how people have been losing their personal integrity because of a perspective that one is percieved by others. In addition, when he says, "Constantly changing reference point", he is try to let the reader know that if a person is constantly changing their type of character, then that person is becoming insecure due to this person changing because he/she doesn 't know who they are yet. These type of people need to find out what they want in order to regain their pesonal

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