Even so this seems to hit a wall too, a wall that seems to be insurmountable. But that is because it is ‘me’ trying to do it for ‘myself’.
The goal is to allow perfection and purity irrevocably, and ‘I’ simply cannot do it for ‘me’, it’s a dead end!
So yes it can only be altruism, well at least I see that clearly now.
I remember being younger and with my girlfriend at the time watching the insidious horror movie. Where I think the son gets abducted by the ghosts into the ‘ghost realm’ which is full of terrible things of course.
The dad ends up choosing to enter this ghost realm to save his son.
I remember thinking that if she (my gf) was trapped there I would have the immediate courage to go in, and yet without that altruistic motive I would not dare, it was way too terrifying.