The One Thing Which You Have To

You Must Be Ready To Give Up Everything, Not Only Material Attachments But Also Human Attachments - Father, Mother, Wife, Children - Everything That You Have. But The One Thing Which You Have To Abandon Unconditionally Is Your Self.

I Was Being Called To Surrender The Very Citadel Of My Self. I Was Completely In The Dark. I Did Not Really Know What Repentance Was Or What I Was Required To Repent Of. It Was Indeed The Turning Point Of My Life.

...the Need To Overawe People And Demand Obedience From Them Is Powerful And Seductive. It Is A Part Of That World That The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Not Of.

I Liked The Solitude And The Silence Of The Woods And The Hills. I Felt There The Sense Of A Presence, Something Undefined And Mysterious, Which Was Reflected In The Faces Of The Flowers And The Movements Of Birds And Animals, In The Sunlight Falling Through The Leaves And In The Sound Of Running Water, In The Wind Blowing On The Hills And The Wide Expanse Of Earth And Sky.

In His (christ's) Surrender On The Cross All The Pain And Agony Of Mankind Was Concentrated At A Single Point, And Passed Through From Death To Immortality, There Is No Pain Of Any Creature From The Beginning To The End Of Time Which Was Not 'known' At This Point And Thus Transmuted. To Know All Things In The Word Is Thus To Know All The Suffering Of The World Transfigured By The Resurrection, Somehow Reconciled And Atoned In Eternal Life. It Was God's Purpose Which He Set Forth In Christ As A Plan For The Fullness Of Time, To Unite All Things In Him, Things On Heaven And Things On Earth'.