Parker Palmer – Chris Morton https://www.chrismorton.info Growth and Mission Fri, 29 May 2020 10:28:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.32 Parker Palmer: The True Self is a True Friend https://www.chrismorton.info/2013/03/26/parker-palmer-the-true-self-is-a-true-friend/ Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:00:42 +0000 http://www.chrismorton.info/?p=4196 The figure calling to me all those years was, I believe, what Thomas Merton calls “true self.” This is not the ego self that wants to inflate us (or deflate us, another from of self-distortion), not the intellectual self that wants to hover above the mess of life in clear but ungrounded ideas, not the […]

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]]> The figure calling to me all those years was, I believe, what Thomas Merton calls “true self.” This is not the ego self that wants to inflate us (or deflate us, another from of self-distortion), not the intellectual self that wants to hover above the mess of life in clear but ungrounded ideas, not the ethical self that wants to live by some abstract moral code. It is the self-planted in us by the God who made us in God’s own image– the self that wants nothing more, or less, than for us to be who we were created to be.

True self is a true friend. One ignores or rejects such friendship only at one’s peril.

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