The greatest danger—that of losing one’s own self—may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing. By looking constantly into the mirror of the world's opinion, a man becomes a counterfeit, a phantom to himself. His eyes are darkened by vanity, so that he sees everything, yet perceives nothing of his own hollowed spirit. He trades his true face for a public shadow 1. He who seeks the applause of men constructs a false image, an idol of clay to be praised by the world. By turning his eyes outward to the shadow of things, his interior lamp is extinguished. He falls into a profound cecity of heart; he beholds the outward show of the world, but perceives nothing of the living Truth within 2.
2Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, Ch. 2 (trans. William Benham, 1886).
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