“'Our kingdom go' is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is of self, the less there is of God.”

Source: The Perennial Philosophy (1945), Chapter VI - Mortification, Non-Attachment, Right Livelihood

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