The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
Tullian TchividjianTag: guilt condemnation self-centeredness
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
Miguel RuizTag: freedom perspective distance letting-go equanimity self-centeredness
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...].
The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.
The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits.
The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.
Tag: arrogance paranoia narcissism self-centeredness
When we fear what other people think about us, we are frequently more focused on 'being interesting' and less focused on 'taking an interest.' That's why many people talk a great deal when they are anxious and why many people never feel heard. If both people and conversation are trying to be interesting, there is no one left to genuinely listen.
John YokoyamaTag: listening self-centeredness engaging
The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.
Richard RohrTag: humility curiosity self-centeredness depravity
It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.
Francis BaconTag: life actions self-centeredness
Failure to recognize one's own absolute significance is equivalent to a denial of human worth; this is a basic error and the origin of all unbelief. If one is so faint-hearted that he is powerless even to believe in himself, how can he believe in anything else? The basic falsehood and evil of egoism lie not in this absolute self-consciousness and self-evaluation of the subject, but in the fact that, ascribing to himself in all justice an absolute significance, he unjustly refuses to others this same significance. Recognizing himself as a centre of life (which as a matter of fact he is), he relegates others to the circumference of his own being and leaves them only an external and relative value.
Vladimir Sergeyevich SolovyovTag: evil self-centeredness egoism human-value human-worth
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