*For where is any one to be found that is indeed free from all affection to creatures?
If a man should give all his substance, yet it is as nothing.
And if he should do great penances, yet they are but little.
And if he should attain to all knowledge, he is yet far off.
*And if he should be very fervent in devotion, yet there is wanting one thing, which is most necessary for him.
*What is that? That having left all, he leave himself, and go wholly out of himself;
And that when he hath done all which he knew ought to be done, he know that he hath done nothing.
5. Let him not think that a great thing, which others may think so; but according to truth let him affirm himself to be an unprofitable servant, as our Saviour hath said, When ye have done all things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants.
*Yet no man richer, no man more powerful, no man more free, than he that can leave himself and all things, and set himself in the lowest place.