February 5th
Book Two, Chapter 11
Of the Small Number of the Lovers of the Cross of Jesus

Where shall we find a man that is willing to serve God disinterestedly?  Seldom do we find any one so spiritual as to be stripped of all things.  For who shall be able to find the man that is truly poor in spirit, and divested of attachment to all created things?...That having left all things else, he leave also  himself, and wholly go out of himself, and retain nothing of self-love....there is no one richer than such a man, none more powerful, none more free, who knows how to leave himself and all things, and to put himself in the very lowest place.