While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements... - Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

"While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life."

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