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"One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion)."
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"Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you."
"A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself."
"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."
"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
"Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. 'There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish.'Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. 'Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so."
"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish."
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
"Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one."
"One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion)."
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"What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!"
"The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires."
"There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one's own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won't these faults have to be broken?"
"Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!"
"This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it."
"Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan)."
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