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#unselfishness
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Self-centeredness stagnates like the Dead Sea
SELF-CENTEREDNESS. Perhaps the most common center today is the self. The most obvious form is selfishness, which violates the values of most people. But if we look closely at many of the popular approaches to growth and self-fulfillment, we often find self-centering at their…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
All winners need losers, all saints need sinners
Saints have always declared themselves as abject sinners—through recognition that their aspiration to be saintly is motivated by the worst of all sins, spiritual pride, the desire to admire oneself as a supreme success in the art of love and unselfishness. And beneath this lies…
Removing the illusion of oneself as a separate ego does not mean being “unselfish”
But this must not be confused with our usual ideas of the practice of “unselfishness,” which is the effort to identify with others and their needs while still under the strong illusion of being no more than a skin-contained ego. Such “unselfishness” is apt to be a highly…