Summary of David G. Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself (eBook)

IRB Media (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
28 Seiten
Irb (Verlag)
979-8-3500-2480-7 (ISBN)

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The most important thing in the world for Thomas Merton is to find God, and for Christians, this means knowing God and yourself. Failing to know yourself deeply results in a spirituality that is not well grounded in experience.#2 The pastor in the story above was a perfect example of how the gap between a person s inner reality and their external appearance can be extremely large. The pastor had crafted a public self that was completely different from his true experience, and this led to an enormous chasm between the two.#3 Self-knowledge that is pursued apart from knowing our identity in relation to God can lead to self-inflation. It can also lead to self-preoccupation, as we spend more time studying ourselves than studying God.#4 The false self is a part of all of us, to one degree or another. It is our attempt to project a pretend, idealized self to the world. The truth is that we are all just pretending, and we all have a false self.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3500-2480-7 / 9798350024807