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words, how the least measure of true self-denial may be known. And in one word that is thus: Wherever the interest of carnal self is stronger and more predominant habitually than the interest of God, of Christ, of everlasting life, there...

making the decision I supported, I still wanted him to have all the relevant information. This was partly out of self-interest as well as a sense of the duty I owed to my boss. If I didn't give him the full story and his decision was...

when people are willing to carry one another’s burdens, endure discomfort together, and choose sacrifice over self-interest. “We love because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19) In the end, perhaps people, cities, and even civilizations...

It is to make full use of the original mind. That is to live as it is. Our original mind will never move with our self-interest as a center. Essentially we are always for the opponent, trying to please the other. So those who live to...

online by the Korean Bar Association (KBA) targeting 2,521 member lawyers. From the perspective of narrow self-interest within the legal profession, this result may be unsurprising. However, analyses also suggest that this is evidence of...

assets, while the burden of principal and interest payments is high relative to income,” the report said. “Slow income...weak performance in the service sector and other factors, may hinder self-employed households’ ability to...

in the midst of suffering, Love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straightforward. Having died of self-interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us...

judges 18:27 Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and seure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city. They are savage people because who is without God...

We hope to have health, happiness, and harmony for ourselves, and we wish that others may have the same. Self-interest exists here, but it is very different from selfishness. Such an attitude of benefiting others is known as Bodhi-mind...