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    Summary of David G. Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself
    Summary of David G. Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself
    Summary of David G. Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself
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    #1 The most important thing in the world for Thomas Merton is to find God, and for Christians, this means knowing God and yourself. Failing to know yourself deeply results in a spirituality that is not well grounded in experience.

    #2 The pastor in the story above was a perfect example of how the gap between a person’s inner reality and their external appearance can be extremely large. The pastor had crafted a public self that was completely different from his true experience, and this led to an enormous chasm between the two.

    #3 Self-knowledge that is pursued apart from knowing our identity in relation to God can lead to self-inflation. It can also lead to self-preoccupation, as we spend more time studying ourselves than studying God.

    #4 The false self is a part of all of us, to one degree or another. It is our attempt to project a pretend, idealized self to the world. The truth is that we are all just pretending, and we all have a false self.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateSep 19, 2022
    ISBN9798350024807
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      The most important thing in the world for Thomas Merton is to find God, and for Christians, this means knowing God and yourself. Failing to know yourself deeply results in a spirituality that is not well grounded in experience.

      #2

      The pastor in the story above was a perfect example of how the gap between a person’s inner reality and their external appearance can be extremely large. The pastor had crafted a public self that

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