Poverty

POVERTY - see PURGATORY

Paradox of Poverty: "That thou mayest have pleasure in everything, seek pleasure in nothing. That thou mayest know everything, seek to know nothing." As soon as it covets anything, it is not love, but lust. Accept poverty then the Cosmos belongs to you and you escape the heresy of separateness. (p249-50) Poverty of the mystics is a mental rather than physical state - detachment which consists in suppressing desire and avoiding pleasure, even though possession may be still retained. (p255) (Mysticism)