There is a death involved but it is not the kind of death that men call death. There is a death – there is a radical change of state of mind.

As Paul said: “I die daily.”

The cost is that form of mental abandonment that Blake calls “madness.” But man is afraid; he dare not so abandon himself to a dream, and so never “dies.”

I can anywhere so completely detach myself from what is taking place that I can “die” to that state.

Take this simple one in Paul’s letters to the Corinthians: “I die daily,”

So I must learn the art of dying. Paul says: “I die daily.”

There is no transforming power in the physical death

“The best thing in life is death but it takes man so long to die that his friends never see him rise from the grave.”

I must learn to die to what I AM in order to live to what I want to be.

you don’t steal to survive with this technique—you die in order to live

When you do it daily, you die daily as the prophet said, “I die daily.”

So, remember, Easter is the art of dying that you may live

Easter is a daily opportunity to simply die that you may live

So I must now learn the art of dying that I may live, rather than, I would say, killing that I may survive.