Finding a beneficent solution is both a selfless and a selfish act.

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If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

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What we really want is not selfish self-consciousness but selfless spontaneity, and the reason why purpose is so motivating is it draws us up and out of ourselves to a place where we escape our petty prison of selfishness.

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