Distilled Spirits

I have long had an attachment to material things and this has caused me much pain. Someone once suggested that when we have this sort of attachment, four things come: a little crying, a little sighing, a little lying, a little dying. I cry because I want something; sigh when I don't get it; lie a little to get it; eventually, die a little inside. This symbolic death is because in demanding these material things I am separating from my spiritual self, my true self. I don't own these possessions; they own me. I have said many times in the past, "If I can just accomplish this particular thing or obtain some other particular item, then I will be happy." It didn't happen.