True Self/ False Self: Unmasking the Spirit Within

Spiritual Life, Winter 2000 by Jordan, Reg

True Self/False Self: Unmasking the Spirit Within. By Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. New York: Crossroad, 2000. Pp. 127. Paper. $12.95.

In this new book Father Basil teaches that the false self is constructed out of our attachments to things. He asks, "Are we not unhappy because we cannot do something we want to do, we cannot have something we want to have, or we're concerned about what others will think? The first step towards freedom lies in coming to this realization." True Self/False Self suggests that the answer to the problem of the false self leads to the simple meditation known as Centering Prayer.

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