| p18 | The first and most essential step is releasing the individual self’s need to strive after anything at all. You have already tried every path and found each one wanting. The second step is what we will call “holy dying,” but not the death of the body. It is the death of ownership we are concerned with here: the surrender of “my will,” “my virtue,” “my way.” The final step is life beyond life, a way of being so utterly simple, so completely direct, that no explanation is possible. |