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“The reason I have great misfortune is that I have the self. If I have no self, what misfortune do I…”
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“The reason I have great misfortune is that I have the self. If I have no self, what misfortune do I have? So one who values the self as the world, can be given the world. One who loves the self as the world, can be entrusted with the world.”

Laozi, Daodejing, Lin tr. (Ch 13)

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