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So few seem to know that surrender of the ego--what Jesus called denying self and also losing life--must be absolute. It does not stop with the more obvious and grosser weaknesses, the so-called sins. It must include surrendering the clinging to religious organizations and beliefs, religious dogmas, and groups. The attachments which hold us to the self are not only concerned with material possessions and material things. They are also concerned with social conventions and prejudices, with inherited habits and traditions. We remain deluded by the self until we are denuded of the self.

-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life > Chapter 4 : Surrender > # 86