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When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

Robert Adams

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
Self
Really
Abide
Abiding
Ego
Eventually
Small
Turns

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