What is meant by identity? ...For practical purposes here we are talking bout one's own authentic and personal beliefs and convictions, based on experience of oneself as a person, experience of one's ability to choose and reject even good things which are not relevant to one's own life.
Merton, Thomas. Contemplation in a World of Action. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame Press, 1998) 61
Thought for the Day
Identity in this deep sense is something that one must create for oneself by choices that re significant and that require a courageous commitment in the face of anguish and risk.
Contemplation in a World of Action: 61
Contemplative Pause: Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. How do you identity yourself?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—
that our lives had become unmanageable.~ Step 1 of the Twelve Steps
Until you bottom out, and come to the limits of your own fuel supply, there is no reason for you to switch to a higher octane of fuel. For that is what is happening! Why would you? You will not learn to actively draw upon a Larger Source until your usual resources are depleted and revealed as wanting. In fact, you will not even know there is a Larger Source until your own sources and resources fail you.
Until and unless there is a person, situation, event, idea, conflict, or relationship that you cannot “manage,” you will never find the True Manager. So God makes sure that several things will come your way that you cannot manage on your own.
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