If you start, however, as a passionless blank, as a vegetable seeking to beeaten, with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce, you will not winthe crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is nota sacrifice to give your life for others, if death is your personal desire. Toachieve the virtue of sacrifice, you must want to live, you must love it, youmust burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can giveyou—you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires awayfrom your reach and drains your love out of your body. It is not mere deaththat the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal, but death by slowtorture.“Do not remind me that it pertains only to this life on earth. I amconcerned with no other. Neither are you.