| BkII:1.III.4 | The path of detachment may seem difficult, but only at the beginning. Sooner or later you will realize it is not necessary to own anything because nothing is really external to you. Why seek to own that which is already yours?—that which is a part of you? To believe in something external to yourself is what leads you to think that you can and must possess it. “Having” does not mean anything in the realm of love. In love there is only being. Being and having are identical in love. |