Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you

To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.

I think I possess because I do not try to give,
Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Possession of anything begins in the mind.

You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.

we cannot give what we have not got

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed.

We have to possess before we can give.

I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights to its fate? To dispose of it at will? To deny others it’s use? Ownership seems a uniquely human behavior, a social contract validating the desire for purposeless possession and control.

I don't want to give it to you, so please take it quickly and hide it, or I shall ask for it back. It is a very sordid feeling, I admit; but if you also had the collector's temperament you would know that to give away anything is nearly an impossibility, and to give away anything without regretting it is quite an impossibility.

You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.

if you possess more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m