Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the he…

Albert Schweitzer
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (1929). Civilization and Ethics
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