Centeredness Quotes

• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

  Stephen Spender

  Memories, Creativity, Self

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• Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

  Jacque Fresco

  Education, Food, Pride

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• We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Men, Wisest Man

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• When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Joel Osteen (2015). “Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Women

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Compassion, Self

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• Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, People, Track

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• Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's large. Step into the ocean or walk on Mount Tamalpais, and that kind of amnesia and self-centeredness isn't possible. Enter the natural world at all, you see existence emerge, ripen, fall and continue, and you can't help but feel more tender towards self and others. That summoning into the large and the shared is what poems exist also to do.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Ocean, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.

  Kenny Smith

  Self, Words Of Wisdom, Trying

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• Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Self, Waiting, Miracle

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• The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Passion

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• Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 22, No. 6, November - December 1997.

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• One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Self, People, Perspective

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The book of Acts records the propagation of the gospel (the good news) concerning Jesus Christ. The Epistles (letters) explain the gospel and its implications for our lives. The book of Revelation anticipates and describes the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. From beginning to end, the Bible glorifies Jesus Christ and centers on Him. Its Christ-centeredness is one of its wonderful features.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Book, Preparation

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• The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

  Max Lucado

  Wisdom, Self, Self Centeredness

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Pain, Character, Joy

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• Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Couple, Mean, Challenges

  Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books

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• We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we ­persist in self-­centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dark, Self, Long

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Self, World, Growing

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• I think we've become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Phones, Self

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  People, Giving, Ego

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• Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

  Rick Yancey

  Self, Pity, Form

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

  John Piper

  Husband, Father, Names

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• I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Movie, Stars, Self

  "Shah Rukh Khan: 'My job is to make people smile'" by Grace Wong, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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