All true love and all sacriﬁce arein their essence Nature’s contradiction of the primary egoism andits separative error; it is her attempt to turn from a necessary ﬁrstfragmentation towards a recovered oneness. All unity betweencreatures is in its essence a self-ﬁnding, a fusion with that fromwhich we have separated, a discovery of one’s self in others.But it is only a divine love and unity that can possess in the light what the human forms of these things seek for inthe darkness.
Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga
ego, god, love, sacrifice