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'The True Self' at CCblogs

Posted by cicw

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

From CCblogs:

It seems more clear all the time that who I really am has been encrusted over the years by layers and layers of self-protection. This is what the contemplatives call the artificial self or the false self. What also seems just as clear is that openness to realism and honesty about who I’ve become is the only path to finding rest in God.

Thomas Merton said, ” The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.”

OK, but how am I to find the truth about myself?

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