True Self/False Self: Unmasking the Spirit Within

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.

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?

M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O., is a Trappist monk of St. Joseph s Abbey in Spencer, M.A. and has authored of over thirty books.