We find God in our own being which is the mirror of God.
(p. 134)
His presence is present in my own presence. If I am, then He is. And in knowing that I am, if I penetrate to the depths of my own existence and my own present reality, the indefinable am that is myself in its deepest roots, then through this deep center I pass into the infinite I am which is the very Name of the Almighty.
My knowledge of myself in silence (not by relfection on my self, but by penetration to the mystery of my true self which is beyond words and concepts because it is utterly particular) opens out into the silence and the subjectivity of God's own self.
The grace of Christ identifies me with the engrafted word ...
which is Christ living in me.
(pp. 71-72)
For the sinful self is not my real self,
it is not the self You have wanted for me,
only the self that I have wanted for myself.
And I no longer want this false self.
But now Father, I come to You in your own
Son's self .. and it is He Who presents me to You.
(p. 75)
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