life on planet earth on True Self

Thomas Merton once said, “Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self, This is the man I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. A...

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Busyness allows us to avoid the deepest questions of our souls. It keeps us at arm's length from our truest, most authentic selves. And when we don't know our deepest, most authentic selves, w...

Define yourself radically as beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.

We do not find our true self by seeking it. Rather, we find it by seeking God.

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior.

As long as we live, our self-absorption and our insecurity will walk together, holding hands and swinging them back and forth like two little girls on their way to a pretend playground they can never ...