Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.
The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
. . . there is power in self-sacrifice.
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?
Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.
Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.
It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.
What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.
I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.
The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
