Chapter XXVIII.
That the victory over covetousness can only be gained by
stripping one’s self bare of everything.
This
then is the perfect
victory over covetousness: not to allow a gleam from the very smallest
scrap of it to remain in our heart, as we know that we shall have no
further power of quenching it, if we cherish even the tiniest bit of a
spark of it in us.