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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Self Realization?

However, the essence of a fallen world is that the best cannot be attained by free enjoyment, or by what is called ‘self-realization’ (usually a nice name for self-indulgence, wholly inimical to the realization of other selves); but by denial, by suffering. Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is no escape.

J.R.R. Tolkien
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