Thread: Realizing Selfishness
View Single Post
Old 03-27-2015, 11:37 AM
  # 3 (permalink)  
Boleo
Laozi Old Man
 
Boleo's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Detroit, MI
Posts: 6,665
Originally Posted by rosalia View Post
As I thought about this, it came to me that unless I am doing things for other people without any attachment or expectation of an outcome, the action is from a selfish place. I am manipulating in order to contrive an outcome. This is selfishness. If I am worried about the outcome, to the point that I am praying for the outcome, then it is selfish.
"Detachment is the highest of all principles. The noblest of all virtues and the only truly unselfish motive for doing anything.

If you need a reason to love - you have already sinned."

(Mester Eckhart)
Boleo is offline  
Reply