WFTW - Simple Dignity

Sooner or later we must distinguish between what we are not and what we are. We must accept the fact that we are not what we would like to be. We must cast off our false, exterior self like the cheap and showy garment that it is...

We must find our real self, in all its elemental poverty, but also in its great and very simple dignity; created to be the child of God, and capable of loving with something of God's own sincerity and his unselfishness."

Thomas Merton