Gift book wisdom: To give away one's cloak is to surrender oneself.
But central to mystical life is the understanding of spiritual or mystical poverty, a state of inner emptiness or surrender, of offering oneself completely.
Islam means "surrender". And to surrender oneself to the power of Allah is the beginning of wisdom, beginning of faith.
"Truly to love one's little homeland, it is best to go away, to exile oneself for ever, to surrender oneself to the vast absorption of Paris, and for the homeland to grow so distant it seems to die.
"On a sunny afternoon when everyone is outside, one would do best to hang about in the train station or, better yet, stay at home, draw the curtains, and surrender oneself to one's boredom on the sofa," he wrote.
According to Webster to be addicted is: to devote or surrender (oneself) to something habitually or obsessively addicted to something.
The will to make oneself completely free.
It was much easier to remove oneself completely from the world into the vast architecture of the novel.
Having to portray violence involves an element of real fear and distress, because removing oneself completely is impossible.
To launch oneself completely alone into an alien culture, carrying only that symbol of lightness and detachment, the backpack, is an expansive and peculiarly western rite of passage.
Understood in this way, one only properly ascribes integrity to a person with whom one finds oneself completely in moral agreement.
