To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
I can, therefore I am.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.