Some quotes about Selfishness

“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.

quotes[carl jung]

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.”

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.”

“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness
conscious.”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other
in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of
darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not
balanced by sadness.”

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are
themselves”

aldous huxley's quotes

Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma.
Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

love and bliss

We are born to be blissful, it is our birthright. But people are so foolish, they don't even claim their birthright. They become more interested in what others possess and they start running after those things. They never look within, they never search in their own house.

The intelligent person will begin his search from his inner being--that will be his first exploration--because unless I know what is within me how can I go on searching all over the world?--it is such a vast world. And those who have looked within have found it instantly, immediately. It is not a question of gradual progress, it is a sudden phenomenon, a sudden enlightenment.

The only antidote for the misuse of psychic powers is love; otherwise all power corrupts. It may be wealth, it may be prestige, it may be politics, or it may be psychic--it makes no difference. Whenever you feel powerful, if you don't have love as an antidote your power is going to become a calamity to others, a curse; because power blinds the eyes.

Love opens the eyes, love cleanses the eyes... your perception becomes clear.

I AM

I was regretting the past
And fearing the future…
Suddenly my Lord was speaking:
“MY NAME IS I AM.” He paused.
I waited. He continued,
“When you live in the past,
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I was.
“When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I will be.
“When you live in this moment,
it is not hard.
I am here.
My name is I AM.”

What is the meaning of life?

What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives.
Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:

Survival and temporal success

...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to die having succeeded in your purpose
...to live
...to protect one's family
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
...to expand one's perception of the world

Ethical

...to express compassion
...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
...to give and receive love
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to serve others, or do good deeds
...to work for justice and democracy

Religious, spiritual and esoteric

...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment
and atonement
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become God, or God-like
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there
is (i.e. God)
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land

Other

...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to die, or become a martyr
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even
life in general
...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
...to have fun
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
...to seek and find beauty
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible
end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them,
or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides
it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
...There is no meaning.