Your true self is already pure and true

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

Usually there is an all too human tendency to give in to your past, unwanted Self-Concept even while you're trying to change it. When it comes time to let go of Self-Concepts like I'm an angry person, I'm a worrier, I'm a sad person, I'm a sick person, I'm a “workaholic, or even, I'm a doctor, I'm a waiter, or whatever, this may feel like a supreme sacrifice. Since your present self is all you know, you may feel like the sacrifice of your undesirable traits, whatever they are, is a loss, not a gain. You may feel you're losing yourself.
Willing sacrifice is important in Self Discovery, and difficult, because often you have to let go before you see the gain. You don't necessarily get to look before you leap into a new Self-Concept. There is a beautiful passage from the Bible:
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know in full, even as I am fully known. (I Corinthians 13:11-12)
It is not what we put on that tells us who we are; it is what we take off that lets us see who we already are. We see "but a poor reflection as in a mirror” when we look at ourselves through the mistakes, hurt, pain, guilt, and the opinions of others in the past.  We see “face to face” when we become clear and transparent, and look within through the eyes of our Silent Master consciousness  Then we see and feel who we already are in truth now.
Your true self is already pure and true.  When you sacrifice your negative traits, you clear the way to see who you really are.