“[T]o become spiritual we have to learn to leave behind our official religious selves—that is, to leave behind the Pharisee that lurks inside all of us—because, as Jesus has told us, we have to leave behind our whole self. All images of ourselves coming as they do out of the fevered calculating brain of the ego, have to be renounced and transcended if we are to become one with ourselves, with God, with one another—that is, if we are to become truly real, truly humble, truly human.” From John Main OSB, “The Christian Crisis,” THE PRESENT CHRIST (New York: Crossroad, 1991), pp. 74-76.
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