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achieve anything and are just as impotent as they themselves are.
Doing this causes such people to live their lives in fear and insecurity.
For instance, let us take the case of a person with a legal problem.

This person will hire a lawyer to defend him. He will trust the lawyer
because he knows the legal system much better than he himself does.
As long as he continues to trust in the lawyer's abilities and feel confi-
dence in him, he will feel relaxed and confident about everything to do

with the lawsuit. But if he does not entrust his business to a lawyer in
spite of the fact that he himself has no knowledge of legal matters, and
take the entire responsibility upon himself, he will meet with many
unnecessary worries and difficulties. Or let us consider the case of a
person who is ill and who willingly entrusts himself to the care of his

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