The following is from James Allen’s Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year. I'm sharing it because the message is quite fitting for Fat Tuesday when Catholics give up something for lent.
Seek diligently the path of holiness.
February Twenty-first.
THE giving up of self is not merely the renunciation of outward things. It consists of the renunciation of the inward sin, the inward error. Not by giving up vain clothing; not by relinquishing riches ; not by abstaining from certain foods ; not by speaking smooth words ; not by merely doing these things is the Truth found. But by giving up the spirit of vanity; by relinquishing the desire for riches ; by abstaining from the lust of self-indulgence ; by giving up all hatred, strife, condemnation, and self-seeking, and becoming gentle and pure at heart, by doing these things is the Truth found.
The renunciation of self is the way of Truth.
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