“Submission, deepest submission to your fate, only this can give you the sacrifices—for this matter of service,” he wrote in his Tagebuch (his diary). What does this mean? The theme of sacrifice and submission colors many of his entries in the Tagebuch henceforward. It means that he accepts his life as a sacrifice. But now a willing sacrifice. Even an eager one. He began to understand that The Wound itself is an aspect of The Gift. They cannot be divided.
