If you’d let go of the attachment you have to your possessions and, likewise, let go the attachment you have to your ego then you will have discarded the principle sources of stress in your life. Renunciation means giving up one’s attachment to the material things of this world–an attachment based on the wish to possess them. A Zen Master remarked, “Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, it is accepting the fact that you can lose them without causing you any worry. The result of such acceptance brings about fulfillment, not deprivation.” Matthew 6: 19-21 states: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moths nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”