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Self-SeekingThis Work does not work if you want to save yourself. If your
work is self-seeking, if it is for the benefit of what you consider
to be yourself, it won’t work. It is as simple as that –
it simply won’t happen. The process of the Work is a way
of giving away the self, surrendering the self, giving up the
self, sacrificing the self; and sacrificing it to the truth. This
is not a moral idea. It’s not that if you do the work for
yourself, you are bad, and God will punish you. Some people think
of it that way, I don’t. I think of it as a law of nature.
If you want to follow the path of truth, how can you do something
for the self, when the self is not ultimately something real?
It’s a contradiction. It just doesn’t work that way.
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