'for me to be a saint means to be myself' wrote the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. But what does it mean to ne one's self? 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 vocation 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.