not
receive
!
What'
do
you
fear,
trembling
heart
?
You
fear
to
lose
yourself?
Alas
!
for
all
that
you
are
worth,
what
would
that
matter?
Yes,
you.
will
lose
yourself
if
you
have
strength
to
abandon
yourself
to
God,
but
you
will
be
lost
in
Him.
O
happy
loss
!
I
do
not
know
how
sufficiently
to
repeat
it.
Why
can
I
not
persuade
every
one
to
make
this
abandonment
?
and
why
do
men
preach
anything
less
?
Alas!
men
are
so
blind
that
they
regard
all
this
as
folly,
as
something
fit
for
women
and
weak
minds
;
but
for
great
minds
it
is
too
mean
;
they
must
guide
themselves
by
their
own
meagre
share
of
wisdom.
This
path
is
imknown
to
them,
because
they
are
wise
and
prudent
in
them-selves
;
but
it
is
revealed
to
babes,
who
can
suffer
self
to
be
annihilated,
and
who
are
willing
to
be
moved
by
God
at
His
pleasure,
leaving
Him
to
do
with
them
as
He
will,
without
resistance,
without
considering
what
others
will
say.
Oh,
how
difficult
it
is
to
this
proper
prudence
to
become
nothing
both
in
its
own
eyes
and
in
the
sight
of
others
!
Men
say
that
their
one
object
in
life
is
to
glorify
God,
while
it
is
really
their
own
glo-rification.
But
to
be
willing
to
be
nothing
in
the
sight
of
God,
to
live
in
an
entire
abandonment,
in
utter
self-
