Our operative
God image is often a subtle combination of our mom and our dad and/or any other
significant authority figures. Once we begin an inner life of prayer and
in-depth study of sacred texts, we slowly begin to grow, and from then on it
only gets better. Grace does its work and creates a unique “work of art” (Ephesians 2:10).
Most early “God
talk”—without self-knowledge and inner journey—is largely a sincere pretense,
even to the person who consciously believes the language (see teachings of
Socrates, Teresa of Avila, Carl Jung). The miracle of grace and true prayer is
that they invade the unconscious mind and heart (where our real truth
lies)—and thus really change us! It invades them so much that the love of God
and the love of self invariably proceed forward together. On the practical
level, they are experienced as the same thing!
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