Possessions do not feed my spirit. I am liberated from the desire to hoard things.

Most houses have a drawer somewhere full of cables for devices nobody owns any more. Nobody decided to build it. Each cable went in for a sensible reason and none has ever come out.

Very little of this is greed. Things get kept because throwing them away means admitting something — that the hobby is over, that the flat you were saving them for was never rented, that a particular person is not coming round again.

Which is why letting go of objects is so rarely about objects. Open the drawer and the real question is not what any of it is worth. It is what you were keeping it in case of.