Identity is carved out in association, rather than in isolation. This is one fact that struck me hard and strong years ago when I was preparing a paper on the Salesian Brother.
Often we think that in order to make ourselves stand out we need to be apart from the rest. But even there, without the other(s), we do not have a measuring yard.
Understood in this context, the invitation of Jesus to lose oneself, in order to find who we truly are, makes perfect sense. Only when we understand all and everyone around us, do we begin to make sense of ourselves!
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