Quotes About Selflessness

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Be a light unto others, not boastful of self.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

Love does not expect anything in return

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

By the day, I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no, I was you and never knew it.

The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away.

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

Why is it that 'we' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because 'we' are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha).

When does complete awareness occur? When the ego departs.