Heart

 Purity of heart can be thought of as an acceptance of ourselves as we discover who we really are and not who we “want” to be.  We may want to be like someone, but we will never be other than who we are. This means that we come to an acceptance of our limitations.  Fantasy has deluded images of ourselves and are all-powerful wannabe.  We come to discover that we suffer from exaggerations about ourself.  So the spiritual formation process is that first we come to see the mess, but with an acceptance of how we have been.  Then we can work on the real rather than the delusional.  Beneath this false self is a really good person, but one that has limits and can be fallible.  These are not bad things.  These are human things.