On Possessions

"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, you should keep it. If you were to give it up in a mood of self-sacrifice or out of a stern sense of duty, you would continue to want it back, and that unsatisfied want would make trouble for you. Only give up a thing when you want some other condition so much that the thing no longer has any attraction for you, or when it seems to interfere with that which is more greatly desired.” Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi

If anyone knows the context for this quote, please forward it to me.

It is a fascinating quote in the large context of Gandhi's life--a man who studied in England, became an attorney, and lived as a person of the higher classes in his young adulthood. He died celibate (though he still had a close relationship with his wife) and with almost no possessions. His quote forces the question, "What do I most want in life?" and the obvious follow-up, "Where does that hunger come from and what does it do to me and to others when I try to satiate it?"