5 thoughts on true selves and the discovery thereof

From Rebecca Solnit's "Cinderella Liberator"

I.
​"The fairy godmother replied that true magic is to help each thing become its best and most free self, and then she asked the horses if they wanted to be horses."
-"Cinderella Liberator," Rebecca Solnit

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CNS photo/Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

II.
“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.”

III.
“There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him."
​-Thomas Merton

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Unknown painting of the Persian poet Rumi

IV.
​"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."

V.
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
-Rumi