"It had never dawned on him that the vitally important thing was to drop his ego, that the ego fattens on holiness just as much as on worldliness, on poverty as on riches, on austerity as on luxury. There is nothing the ego will not seize upon to inflate itself."
DISCIPLE: “I have come to you with nothing in my hands.”
MASTER: “Then drop it at once!”
DISCIPLE: “But how can I drop it? It is nothing.”
MASTER: “Then carry it around with you! You can make a possession of your nothing. And carry your renunciation around you like a trophy. Don’t drop your possessions. Drop your ego.”
(Brennan Manning. The Signature Of Jesus)
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