Synopses & Reviews
Connecting his own powerful spirituality with the humanism of de Chardin and the contemplative wisdom of Merton, Pennington deftly uncovers the direct route to happiness and peace our age so desperately seeks. M. Basil Pennington is a Trappist monk at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, and the author of Lectio Divina and Living in the Question. In this brief but illuminating work, Pennington sheds light on the spiritual practice of transformation, which for Christians comes under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. Pennington wants us to love ourselves for God's sake and to take seriously the transformations that the Holy Spirit is working within us.
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Who am I? Who is my true self? Do I really identify with my true self? Or do I mistakenly identify my false self as my true self? Is this the root of all the chaos in my life? How can I uncover my false self and get rid of it? How can I find my true self and be happy? These are the profound questions Pennington invites us to resolve. Do we have the courage to unmask our false self and enter into the Christian spirit of being our true selves -- images created to mirror the Love-image of God?
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Father Basil teaches that the false self is constructed out of our attachments to things.