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“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”
“When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin.”
Source: Riveted
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
“my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.”
Variant: Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Context: I’ve seen people who discovered a great meaning in their jobs and they became so absorbed in that that they didn’t have time to become self-centered. They loved their job. And the great prayer that anyone could pray at that point is: “O God, help me to love my job as this individual loves his or hers. O God, help me to give my self to my work and to my job and to my allegiance as this individual does.” And this is the way out. And I think this is what [Ralph Waldo] Emerson meant when he said: “O, see how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there, some great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.” And this becomes a point of balance when you can forget yourself into immortality. You’re not so absorbed in self, but you are absorbed in something beyond self.
“You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!”
On getting old.
What It Is (2009)
“You're a self-centered rascal, aren't you!”
Spoken to Hakuin Ekaku; as cited in: Hakuin Ekaku (author), Norman Waddell (translator). Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin. 2010. p. xxii
“In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.”
“You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.”
