That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of liberation could only have been penned in one place: the cross.

Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.