Dolce Far Niente

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‎"In order to be born again, you will have to lose the 'persona' you had in your eyes and that you tried to play out before others. That is the fundamental asceticism: to be freed from oneself, to do away with the complex and sturdy scaffolding that we have constructed in order to rely on our own strength and count on our own reserves, and have the impression that all the guarantees we need are within our own selves. One day all that must fall to pieces, so that we can come before the Father as children who have no other protection than his loving care. Your only treasure is the gift God is making you of his own self, and which enables you to be yourselves, not so much in the eyes of men, but in the eyes of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." (A Carthusian)