“Poverty, chastity and obedience—the renunciation of the world, the flesh and the ego–are the basis not only of all religious life but of all human life. Detachment is the universal law. You cannot enjoy anything until you have learned to be detached from it. It is not the drunkard who enjoys wine, or the glutton who enjoys food, or the sensualist who enjoys love.”
Bede Griffiths in Return to the Centre (London: Collins, 1976) 93.