built into this false self the continual problem of self-deception. Father Keating observes that we can blissfully imagine that we do good to our families, friends, and business associates, for the best of reasons, but when the light of the Holy Ghost begins to shine brighter in our hearts, “our so-called good intentions look like a pile of dirty dishrags.… Divine love, by its very nature, accuses us of our innate selfishness.”
