I was reminded of this quote from CS Lewis.

In self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.  For the Eternal Word also gives Himself in sacrifice; and that not only on Calvary. For when he was crucified, He “did that in the wild weather of His outlying provinces which he had done at home in glory and gladness.”  From before the foundation of the world He surrenders begotten Deity back to begetting Deity in obedience. and as the Son glorifies the Father, so also the Father glorifies the Son (John 17.1,4,5)…  From the highest to the lowest, self exists to be abdicated and, by that abdication, becomes the more truly self, to be thereupon yet the more abdicated, and so forever…. What is outside the system of self-giving is not earth, nor nature… but simply and solely hell.

They did not know the first rule of the holy game, which is that every player must by all means touch the ball and then immediately pass it on.  To be found with it in  your hands is a fault: to cling to it, death.   But when it flies to and fro among the players too swift for the eye to follow, and the great master Himself leads the revelry, giving Himself eternally to His creatures in the generation, and back to Himself in the sacrifice of the Word, then indeed the eternal dance “makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.” CS Lewis,  The Problem of Pain P 137

Give up your self, and you will find your real self.  Lose your life and you will save it.  Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing.  Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. CS Lewis,  Mere Christianity. p 191