“Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.” LoveGivingMindIdeasSelfFeelingsLove IsPureEgoGiving UpJudgmentNegativePrejudiceConstantSelfishnessFlamesMaskRemoveDestroyingStemPure LoveExpect NothingNegative FeelingsPreconceived Ideas Book:Awaken Children Vol. 4 Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4
“Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.” WorldSelfTalkingChristianityBuddhismEgoMajorsSpringHatredIslamGreedConclusionSelfishnessHinduismJudaismDarwinismConfucianismUnkindnessChristianity And Islam Author:Karen Armstrong
“The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.” WayHeartBodyHouseForgetConsciousnessBreakMeditationCreationEgoPrisonSelfishnessTunesBarriersShedIncarnationService To OthersForget YouFree Yourself Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.” ThinkingHumansLittlesLove IsEgoSelfishnessHuman Love Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.” LoveGivingMeanSelfWisdomSpiritMeditationEgoYogaConnectedObsessionSelfishnessWellnessDetachmentSelf Obsession Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It dethrones the ego from the center of our lives and puts others there, breaking down the carapace of the selfishness that holds us back from an experience of the sacred. And it gives us ecstasy, broadening our perspectives and giving us a larger, enhanced vision.” GivingMeanHas BeensFoundCompassionVisionOur LivesPerspectiveEgoEnlightenmentSacredSelfishnessEcstasyBreaking DownGreat Faith Book:The Spiral Staircase Source: The Spiral Staircase
“Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.” WorldEgoConnectedSelfishnessEgotism Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.” ExpressionEgoImportanceSelfishnessAssumptionMaximumFour Agreements Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz