Judge all actions by this one example: bathing takes up so much of our time, but what is it really? Oil, sweat, dirt. The filth of the body. A disgusting mix of oils and lotions blended with body waste. All of it base and revolting. Almost every part of our life is like this. So is every worldly thing we chase.
By one action judge of the rest: this bathing which usually takes up so much of our time, what is it? Oil, sweat, filth; or the sordes of the body: an excrementitious viscosity, the excrements of oil and other ointments used about the body, and mixed with the sordes of the body: all base and loathsome. And such almost is every part of our life; and every worldly object.