real selves~

we have talked about placing masks over the face of our 'real' selves, and of playing roles which disguise our true real selves.

The implication is that somewhere, inside of you and inside of me, lurk our real selves.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

If i am anything as a person, it is what I :

think

judge

feel

value

honour

esteem

love

hate

fear

desire

hope for

believe in

and

am committed to.

these are the things that define my person, and they are constantly in process, in the process of change. Unless my mind and heart are hopelessly barricaded, all these things that define me as a person are forever changing

by: john powell