Because what I'm doing in this book, as a philosopher, I discovered that a lot of my colleagues are remarkably unselfconscious about the tools of the trade. Weird because philosophers are famously self conscious and reflective and navel-gazing.
It's also essential to have a motivational foundation which is unselfish, which is ethical, which is about non-harming, which is engaged in a process of constantly inviting us to deconstruct our fear and open up to the world in a way where we're in this beneficial, non-separate, non-objectifying
Because just as the case of Nicholas Winton and of Wesley Autrey, both of these people acted not selfishly, but from a perspective of complete unselfishness in this very seamless, unfiltered way. And this is, if you will, one of the qualities or aspects of altruism.
I think I like Jared's reckless love for Richard. I like the idea of completely unself -protective adoration, maybe to a pathological degree, but I think I wish I could do that more readily. I like, I guess you could see it as a negative trait about Richard--
Love is an expression of the heart. Love is when we value unselfish service for the well-being of others.
So I think other than that though we really were able to -- I think there were no divas in our group so we really focused on the good of the whole, the good of the group. And really in that way learned to be very unselfish and to be very in tune to, "Holly seems like she might be a little space today. Let's let her have like the morning by herself, and come back." We weren't perfect but we really did learn to read each other's signs. And in some ways it was like a marriage, like you really put the good of the whole versus the good,
And if you succeed you win. And we use it all the time very unselfconsciously. Very few people, probably you've used to sort of disguise reductio three or four times in the last day.
Like, we donate our time, our energy, our money to people we don't even know, we will probably never meet, and we don't see them, and everything. But even within that really unselfish action, seems like there's an element of self-achievement, self-satisfaction. So much so that just like you explained, if we feel like we're not efficient enough, we end up not doing it completely.
say, by the way, that--and motives are really not important in understanding strategic philanthropy. But it's interesting to think about their motives. They were--they had some purely unself -interested motives. They were interested in spreading Christianity to the world. But they were obviously interested in their own, in their country's welfare, which was probably not distinguishable
Grandmothers, she said, if you keep your emotions in yourself, it's like you create a stagnant pool of energy. Yeah. And in fact, the elders say the most unselfish thing you can do is heal yourself.
She opened the cage doors of other suffering pigs around her. Now, they say that the definition of love is having a benevolent and unselfish concern for the good of another. If this isn't an act of love, I don't know what is.
You can probably visualize him with his hat and his cigar. These are men of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in about 1910, demonstrating with wonderful unselfconsciousness some of the hand signals used
But not actually of the way Cameron looked in a white string bikini. Instead, I was jealous of her confidence and her utter unselfconsciousness. What must be like, I marveled, to go through life so utterly unwary?
What is the problem with the greed on Wall Street that's actually creating such a destabilization in our own economy? And selfishness, transforming selfishness into a desire to selflessly or unselfishly serve others.
and Joni Mitchell for how expressive she is, and how personal she is, and what unique musical she has. I think Carole King as a writer, and someone who's earthy and unselfish, and generous. I think she's a real role model.
Because I want the audience to understand what kind of a person you are because you've just blown me away from so many different aspects. So you've been described as someone with a laser sharp vision, who is extremely creative, groundbreaking, very unselfish, which makes my heart just want to jump out of my chest, a beautiful thinker, progressive, and this one I really like.
If that's the case of the nature of the universe, why should I love other people? If my ancestors got here by destroying and eating the weaker organisms, why should I now suddenly become unselfish? And the answer is if you want to believe in humanistic values-- I'm glad, by the way.
Now, Brooke understood this, and she was a great team player and very unselfish, would always pass the ball to other teammates, just the way she was supposed to.