March 10th
Book Three, Chapter 32
Of Self-Abnegation, and the Renunciation of all Cupidity

All self-seekers and self-lovers are bound in fetters; full of desires, full of cares, ever unsettled, and seeking always their own ease, not the things of Jesus Christ; but oftentimes devising and framing that which shall not stand.  For all shall perish that comes not of God.  Hold fast this short and perfect word:  "Forsake all, and you shall find all; relinquish desire, and you shall find rest."...For very mean and contemptible, and almost forgotten among men seems that wisdom which is true and heavenly, not teaching high notions of self, nor seeking to be magnified upon earth; which many praise in words, while in their life they are far from it.  Yet, this same is that precious pearl which is hidden from many.