The thing you long for summons you away from the self. Even the desire for the thing lives only if you abandon it. This is the ultimate law—the seed dies to live, the bread must be cast upon the waters, he that loses his soul will save it.
But the life of the seed, the finding of the bread, the recovery of the soul, are as real as the preliminary sacrifice. Hence it is truly said of heaven ‘in heaven there is no ownership. If any there took upon him to call anything his own, he would straightway be thrust out into hell and become an evil spirit.’ But it is also said ‘To him that overcometh I will give a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it’ [Revelation 2:17].
What can be more a man’s own than this new name which even in eternity remains a secret between God and him? And what shall we take this secrecy to mean? Surely, that each of the redeemed shall forever know and praise some one aspect of the Divine beauty better than any other creature can. Why else were individuals created, but that God, loving all infinitely, should love each differently?
And this difference, so far from impairing, floods with meaning the love of all blessed creatures for one another, the communion of the saints. If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be like an orchestra in which all the instruments played the same note.
The only thing we individually own is ourselves. Even that is in constant communion with all others. When we give away our individual selves, then we fully gain our God-given selves. That is a good deal.
It is impossible to give away more than we receive back from the giving.
In symphony,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
This thought from a long-time gardener. Blessings, Z.
Re: Communion:
“All life, all consciousness, is indissolvably connected… it’s all the same thing.”
Yet no two creatures are (or perceive, experience and process) exactly alike.
“Individual means undividable” -(Says Emmet Fox).
Word for the day: ONE. – One Mind, Spirit, Reality, Life.
Quite a mosaic of thought!