“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
“The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.”
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.”
“Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere”
“Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth”
Even when he is still,
The selfish man is busy.
Even when he is busy,
The selfless man is still.
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
“The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.”
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.”
“Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere”
“Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth”
Even when he is still,
The selfish man is busy.
Even when he is busy,
The selfless man is still.
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
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