Quotes About Selflessness

Learn the luxury of doing good

Love is poverty, kenosis. Knowing one's neighbour is inseparable from an attitude of non-possession.

If we negate ourselves and completely plunge into the objective world around us, all oppositions cease. The phrase goes, "The holy man has no self; and, therefore, everything becomes the holy man." By making ourselves empty and plunging deep into the surrounding world to be integrated with things, the surrounding world will in turn become ourselves. We and the world thus will be one, and we will be masters everywhere.

also mention in the same book that Master Imakita Kosen likewise writes in the fourth chapter of Zenkai Ichiran that the consistent way of a superior man lies nowhere but in saying, "Yes!"7 Master Takuan calls this mind that answers, "Yes!" Immovable Wisdom. I think that this spontaneous response to anything in the affirmative selflessly and with mu-shin (no mind) is "praising the practice of zazen and faithfully following it.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

Love isn't putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he's chosen.

People forget what you kept, but they will never forget what you gave.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

Those who serve deserve.

It's easy to judge, but much more difficult to serve.

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

To make the choice of career or profession on selfish grounds, without a true sense of calling, is "probably the greatest single sin any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength.

If my life could be of some use, I would offer it to anyone.

Now, I will make better use of my body and be useful by increasing food production just a little, then I will bid farewell to this world. It would be good to lighten the burden on this country. That is my path to best serve my country as a useless invalid. I want to die soon.

People who live pretty sweet lives don't tend to be of much use to others.

Yaln?zca birilerinin bana bir ?eyler ?smarlamas? dü?üncesi kar??s?nda deh?ete kap?l?yorum. Özellikle, o ki?inin kendi eme?iyle kazand??? paray? benim keyfim için harcamas? bana ac? veren, içimi daraltan dayan?lmaz bir durum.

Humans have a true desire to do good things. They live with the desire that other people will feel thankful to them

If you're too timid to be able to say it, then it means that you are too concerned about yourself. You're afraid to leap into the waves. If you really love someone, then the words of devotion will unconsciously slip out.

I had the feeling that were Mother to die, my own flesh would melt away with her. From now on, I thought, I will forget everything else except prepararing all kinds of delicious things for Mother.

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.

Those who have much are often greedy, those who have little always share.