self-renunciation

is getting out from underneath the only burden that is real; namely, our fear and trembling in behalf of a perishable self.

BY RENOUNCING the self we are getting out from underneath the only burden that is real. For however much we identify ourselves with a holy cause, our fears on its behalf can never be as real and poignant as our fear and trembling in behalf of a perishable self. The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of irrevocable extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. Thus the renunciation of the self is felt as a liberation and salvation.

self renunciation, n.Definitions

self renunciation