In this new book, Father Basil teaches that the false self is constructed out of our attachments to things. He asks, "Are we not happy because we cannot do something we want to do, we cannot have something we want to have, or we're concerned about what others will think?" The first step towards freedom lies in coming to this realization.

Connecting his own powerful spirituality with the humanism of de Chardin and the contemplative wisdom of Merton, Pennington deftly uncovers the direct route to happiness and peace our age so desperately seeks. M. Basil Pennington is a Trappist monk at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, and the author of "Lectio Divina" and "Living in the Question." In this brief but illuminating work, Pennington sheds light on the spiritual practice of transformation, which for Christians comes under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. Pennington wants us to love ourselves for God's sake and to take seriously the transformations that the Holy Spirit is working within us.

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