Vol. 11, Mysticism in Life 9. The Moral of the Mystic Renunciation
What must be renounced? Nothing must be renounced: it is renunciation itself. It is as Farid-ud-Din Attar, the great Persian poet, says,
"Renounce the good of the world, renounce the good of heaven, renounce your highest ideal, and then renounce your renunciation."
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