Distinguishing ego from true self

(Quotations from Author of "The cloud...")

True Self

...we are like a man making a picture of his simple, uncreated, "unbegun" nature, a nature which is free both in itself and for itself; a nature found within all creatures but not restricted to them; outside all creatures, but not excluded from them. (p. 213)

Though you had beginning when your substance was created (for there was a time when you did not exist) yet in Him your being has existed from eternity, without beginning and without ending just as He too is in Himself. (p. 170)

And because wise grace puts all such away (i.e. man's awkward wrapping), we can cheerfully praise - and that beyond the range of the intellect - the beauty of the self in it's naked, unmade, unbegun state. (p. 213)

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