Forgetting about self is not simply an ascetical technique. It is a divine gift that radically transforms the soul, making it understand and love, for God, with God and in God.
If God is our God, and if God is our All, there should be no limit to our confidence and hope in Him. Yet, as a matter of experience, one sees that it is often through want of confidence that men turn away from the pursuit of perfection.
Because we are in Christ, limbs of His body, the vine, we are called to live the Christ-life… to live His life with Him. The life of the body flows into the limbs.