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Detaching from the World

                Desiring exquisite food and clothing is like painting firewood.   These things are consumables.   Clothes keep you warm regardless of their color.   Common foods will satisfy your hunger.   Desire what is right for you.   Guigo1: Meditations                 There is a Spiritual Discipline of Detachment that will help us make spiritual progress.   Attaching to the world is natural; detaching from it makes no sense until you transfer that attachment to God.                   I loved the way Guigo put it when he described desiring clothes as painting firewood.   It all burns.   That is a great way to keep the goods of this world in mind.           ...