At the heart of writer and mystic Thomas Merton’s spirituality is his distinction between our real and false selves. Our false selves are the identities we cultivate in order to function in society with pride and self posession; our real selves are a deep, religious mystery known only to God. The World cultivates the false self, ignores the real one, and therin lies the great irony of human existence: the more we make of ourselves, the less we actually exist.
excerpted from “The Pocket Thomas Merton” - New Seeds Pocket Classics.
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