Becoming Who You Are

By meditating on personal examples from the author’s life, as well as reflecting on the inspirational life and writings of Thomas Merton, stories from the Gospels, as well as the lives of other holy men and women (among them, Henri Nouwen, Therese of Lisieux and Pope John XXIII) the reader will see how becoming who you are, and becoming the person that God created, is a simple path to happiness, peace of mind and even sanctity.

“For me to be a saint means to be myself,” wrote the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. But what does it mean to be oneself? In this profound meditation on Merton’s notion of the “true self,” James Martin helps readers to understand who they are and, in the process, to discover their vocations in life. Using insights from the lives of the saints and contemporary spiritual masters, Martin shows how the quest to know oneself is, ultimately, the quest to know God.