- The impostor prompts us to attach importance to what has no importance...
- The impostor is a liar.
- Our false self stubbornly blinds each of us to the light and the truth of our own emptiness and hollowness. We cannot acknowledge the darkness within.
- The impostor bears a distinct resemblance to alcohol for the alcoholic. He is cunning, baffling, and powerful. He is insidious.
- ...God does not know anything about him (Thomas Merton)
- It is the nature of the false self to save us from knowing the truth about our real selves, from penetrating the deeper causes of our unhappiness, from seeing ourselves as we really are--vulnerable, afraid, terrified, and unable to let our real selves emerge. (James Masterson)
- ...a life devoted to the shadow is a life of sin. I have sinned in my cowardly refusal--out of fear of rejection--to think, feel, act, respond, and live from my authentic self. (Thomas Merton)
- The impostor must be called out of hiding, accepted and embraced. He is an integral part of my total self. Whatever is denied cannot be healed.
- Peace lies in acceptance of truth. Any facet of the shadow self that we refuse to embrace becomes the enemy and forces us into defensive postures.
- Hatred of the impostor is actually self-hatred... self[hatred always results in some form of self-destructive behavior.
- [Must be taken], where unknowingly [the impostor] has longed to be--into the presence of Jesus.
This leaves much to consider. We were made to live fully as a child of God, but we cannot escape the emergence of a false self. I wonder if we can't really see ourselves clearly until we are willing or able to see the impostor for who he really is, a liar.
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