"Son, I must be thy supreme and ultimate end, if thou desirest to be truly happy.
By this intention shall thy affections be purified, which too often are irregularly bent upon thyself and things created.
For if in anything thou seekest thyself, thou presently faintest away within thyself and groweth dry.
Principally, therefore, refer all things Me; for it is I that have given thee all.
Out of Me both little and great, poor and rich, as out of a living fountain, draw living water; and they who freely and willingly serve Me shall receive grace for grace.
But he who would glory in anything else beside Me, or delight in any good as his own, shall not be established in true joy, nor enlarged in his heart; but in many ways shall be impeded and straitened.
Therefore thou must not ascribe any good to thyself, nor attribute virtue to any man; but give all to God without whom man has nothing."
--T O'K 14th Century
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