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One Love
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| Posted 5/29/2008 10:21 AM (GMT -6) |   | Total Kenosis, True Shunyata, The Plerotic Self of Thomas Merton and Abe Masao
by Loe Lencioni
Thomas Merton's idea of the self, especially how he distinguishes the "false self" from the "true self" Wow!!  (pages 8-25)
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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Similitude
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| Posted 5/31/2008 7:37 PM (GMT -6) | | | Speaking of false self and true self, I saw an article about a girl who got amnesia. Prior to that, she had started hanging out with the drinking/partying crowd at high school. She changed her dress and even her walk to fit in with the group. Once she got amnesia, she hated her clothes and began again to walk as she did before hanging with the "in" crowd.
It seems that a lot of our baggage is due to associations that automatically recall feelings that would not normally occur apart from those associations. For amnesia seems to be pretty much the breaking of associative links. What this implies about heart change is another question altogether.
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