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    selflessness


    1. Anything we ask out of selflessness, it will be given


    2. This can be achieved through the selflessness that can be given if love is present in any relationship


    3. There is no such thing as acting on selflessness


    4. Compassion and forgiveness of others, which are the hallmarks of selflessness and charity, move you closer to happiness because these virtues take your focus off your personal needs and desires


    5. For example, you may change that experience from unhappiness to happiness, or from selfishness to selflessness


    6. It is the very opposite of the charity and selflessness that promote happiness


    7. You practice right action (or right conduct) when all that you do issues from selflessness, kindness, charity, and compassion


    8. In a larger sense they seem to represent the instinctive survivalist spirit of self (pride), as opposed to the learned spirit of cooperative association (selflessness)


    9. He says, “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different


    10. What did Tobias tell me? Selflessness and bravery aren’t that different

    11. It was a genuine sense of selflessness and admiration that made Becky stand out; there was simply no motive for her actions aside from care


    12. The love, selflessness, and


    13. love, selflessness are the decisive factors in self-realization


    14. ultimate act of love and selflessness


    15. selflessness is highly valued, the experience, definition, and expression of the self may be quite different from that in our culture (Yang and Chiu 1988)


    16. The material spirit of selfishness has been swallowed up in this new spiritual bestowal of selflessness


    17. lost the thrill of selflessness


    18. But now, as she considered the uncaring serial polygamy practised in the west, often after having produced unwanted children, it all seemed crude and barbaric in comparison with the selflessness revealed in Liloe’s letter


    19. I first heard Coltrane’s music on the 1965 LP, Selflessness, from a record club grab bag


    20. That is the most extreme form of selflessness

    21. We visited hundreds of dwellings and small villages as well as the main centres of Tulancingo, Santaros, Vincoso and everywhere there were signs of a people who were slowly being ground down by taxes and overwork, after three weeks we finally neared Xocanti, the followers now numbered in the thousands, but Wedon the high priest and all the villagers, man, woman and child, came out to escort us into the village, carrying food and drink for as many as wanted it, I began to worry that this selflessness would seriously leave Xocanti short of food but Wedon assured me that was not the case, it was a joyous reunion for me and Coatl, when Jodas and his troop of warriors marched up and as one knelt in front of us, I told them to rise and we all hugged and punched and rolled about in the dirt, even Coatl joined in the fun, not a very dignified entrance for the Most High chief of all the Tolteca, but knowing these people like we did no-one took exception to their chief wrestling on the ground and having a bit of fun, mother hearing about it later congratulated me and called it a stroke of political statesmanship unequalled ever, it was only later that I realised how right she was, that one bit of fooling around had endeared me to all who witnessed it, it had achieved more maybe than all the pomp and ceremony of our long march, I didn’t have the heart to tell her it was impromptu, trust mother to immediately sort the maize from the chaff


    22. Our practice should be based on the ideas of selflessness


    23. Selflessness is very difficult to understand


    24. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything


    25. Selflessness means that, while both good and bad things still happen to the person, there’s not as much of a “me” there that things are happening to


    26. And for all these activities people have also invented contexts of selfishness and selflessness


    27. nectar of dharm in a spirit of selflessness are the dearest to me


    28. at his mercy and mould their conduct with a spirit of selflessness


    29. Living for Christ will attract the Spirit of the Lord, true love, peace, joy, humility, boldness, courage, selflessness, and a passionate heart


    30. The Invincible Sun, the Lord of the High Magic was so impressed by this selflessness that he made this my last murder

    31. It is a life journey but not like any other journey, it is a life which is full of strife, sacrifice, help, support and selflessness


    32. On the other hand, his time of selflessness was over


    33. It is the beauty and love of selflessness


    34. When you have an imbalance in these two Trialities, you get destructive selflessness, or destructive selfishness


    35. The moral of these tales is how she purifies herself by her noble selflessness


    36. Your smaller selfishness does not conflict with your larger selflessness for the larger good of the group


    37. To not only preach, but actually practice selflessness and giving


    38. The holocaust is another example: out of 6 million innocent good people, only the most ruthless, the most insensitive, the most corrupt the most cunning evil filth survived while the best: the genetic best, the spiritual best, the ones with the best hearts, the kindest, the most sensitive souls: the ones whose hearts were filled with generosity, kindness, goodness, love, selflessness, were massacred


    39. - They accept that love means devotion, selflessness, sacrifice, and even death


    40. Actually they were acting on only one half of the aura that was Hitler: they were acting on the undead half: the half that was secretly hiding itself inside the living body of Hitler… and so by doing this: Hitler gave every undead filthy scum… hiding inside the living bodies of people… the freedom to commit their own filthiest of evils and commit the foulest atrocities… in Hitler’s name; an artist and a vegetarian who risked his life to save injured soldiers at the front in ww1 and was injured himself for his selflessness and dedication to goodness: never raising a weapon of death against anyone during his entire life

    41. The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to the service of her child,


    42. He’s … pre-programmed—” she smiled briefly, fleetingly, as she used the very un-Safeholdian term “—to accept bribery and corruption as a motive before he even considers something remotely like selflessness


    43. ” Perhaps selflessness would earn her a reprieve from grief


    44. He loved her, worried for her health, admired her selflessness, couldn’t imagine life without her


    45. In all her bouts of tears there had been a generosity and selflessness that made them seem quite challengeable


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    Synonyms for "selflessness"

    self-sacrifice selflessness altruism

    "selflessness" definitions

    the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others


    acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity