Distinguishing ego from true self

(Quotations from Catherine of Siena)

God speaking to St. Catherine in a vision:

For I created your soul with a capacity for loving -- so much so that you cannot live without love. Indeed, love is your food.
(p. 208)

... the soul's being and capacity to love are infinite, though her actual hating and loving are not infinite. So as long as you are in this life you can hate and love as you choose.
(p. 176)

... through this union {in Christ} of the divine nature with the human, God was made human and humanity was made God.
(p. 53)

St. Catherine of Sienna:

I am she who is not. And if I should claim to be anything of myself, I should be lying through my teeth! ... For you {God} alone are who you are, and whatever being I have and every other gift of mine I have from you, and you have given it all to me for love, not because it was my due.
(pp. 273-274)

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