The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...
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...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...
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