Mere Fin

There are times when absolute truth is communicated in such
a concrete and simple way, that you'd be stupid not to take it
to heart.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originiality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will really be yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for youself, and you will find the in the long run only hatred, loneliness, depair, rage ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.