Drop your opinions, and you are safe. What stops you from letting them go?
Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe. And what is it that hinders thee from casting of it away?
Third, how empty all things will seem when you look down from above at everything on earth and see how constantly it all changes. Think about the vast size and variety of things in the air and sky around it. Every time you look, you will see the same pattern: the same things, lasting for the same brief time. And these are the things we get so proud and puffed up about.
Thirdly, how vain all things will appear unto thee when, from on high as it were, looking down thou shalt contemplate all things upon earth, and the wonderful mutability, that they are subject unto: considering withal, the infinite both greatness and variety of things aerial and things celestial that are round about it. And that as often as thou shalt behold them, thou shalt still see the same: as the same things, so the same shortness of continuance of all those things. And, behold, these be the things that we are so proud and puffed up for.