This invitation [to deny oneself] is less about depriving the self, and more about disowning, or renouncing a relationship with the part of ourself that is not what God created us to be.
Marilyn Vancil, Self to Lose - Self to Find: A Biblical Approach to the 9 Enneagram Types
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