“If true freedom is to be found within ourselves, the ego must yield itself to the birth of our true personality.  But the seeming self is so familiar a companion to some persons that it cannot be easily dropped.  Like a plaster cast, the false ego has to be cut away, pulled off, and this is a process that involves detachment, pain, and some indignity.” Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Lift Up Your Heart)