Quotes about Identity

I finally had to be either Roman or catholic, and I continue to choose the catholic end of that spectrum.

My personal belief is that Jesus's own human mind knew his full divine identity only after his resurrection. He had to live his life with the same faith that we must live, and also "grow in wisdom, age, and grace" (Luke 2:40), just as we do.

Your false self is your role, title, and personal image that is largely a creation of your own mind and attachments. It will and must die in exact correlation to how much you want the Real.

Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God

The surrendering of our false self, which we have usually taken for our absolute identity, yet is merely a relative identity, is the necessary suffering needed to find "the pearl of great price" that is always hidden inside this lovely but passing shell.

It is all one continuum of Incarnation. Who we are in God is who we all are. Everything else is changing and passing away.

The True Self always has something good to say. The False Self babbles on, largely about itself.

Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image.

Christians, you are Christ…for there is but One Son of God.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

You are who you are in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less," he often said.12

There is nothing wrong with or bad about your False Self; it's simply "the identity you created for yourself