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If he ruefully realizes that his most seemingly spiritual conduct and apparently altruistic deeds have been illusory, if he sees at long last that he has lived for his little self alone even when the world admired his unselfishness, then the time has come to live not primarily for others, but for the other self, his highest and greater one.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 4 : Detaching from The Ego (Part I) > # 224