The Divided Self and Its Unification

From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Religious experience often resolves a discordant inner self into unity, whether through gradual moral effort or sudden grace.
Lecture VIII, The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification

Frames religious life as the resolution of inner conflict between higher and lower selves.

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Lecture VIII

Augustine's Confessions cited as classical case of unification.

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