Ordinary giving for which no return is received is felt as a loss, but a
sacrifice is meant to be like a loss, so that one may be sure that the
egoistic claim no longer exists. Therefore the gift should be given as if
it were being destroyed. But since the gift represents myself, I have in
that case destroyed myself, given myself away without expectation of
return. Yet, looked at in another way, this intentional loss is also a
gain, for if you can give yourself it proves that you possess yourself.
Nobody can give that which he has not got. -- Carl Gustav Jung
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