The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. Votes: 5
Humility is self-forgetfulness. Votes: 4
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. Votes: 4
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ... Votes: 4
the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness. Votes: 4
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. Votes: 4
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. Votes: 4
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness. Votes: 4
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. Votes: 4
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness. Votes: 4
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness. Votes: 4
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness. Votes: 4
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union. Votes: 4
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton. Votes: 4
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good. Votes: 4
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves. Votes: 4
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal. Votes: 4
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right. Votes: 4
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self. Votes: 1
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself. Votes: 1
Humility is the forgetfulness of self. Votes: 0
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. Votes: 0
Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self. Votes: 0
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ⥠Votes: 0
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God. Votes: 0
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound. Votes: 0
Zen is not âattainedâ by mirror-wiping mediation, but by âself-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.â We do not âcomeâ, we âare.â Don't strive to become, but be.
Holiness consists in doing God's will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. Votes: 6 Ambrose Bierce
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. Votes: 7 A. C. Benson