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Now one will inevitably raise the question: How then do we conquer self-centeredness?
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
We never get anywhere in this world without the forces of history and individual persons in the background helping us to get there.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
I've seen people who discovered a great meaning in their jobs and they became so absorbed in that that they didn't have time to become self-centered. They loved their job.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
I look at my little daughter every day and she wants certain things and when she wants them, she wants them.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
And this becomes a point of balance when you can forget yourself into immortality. You're not so absorbed in self, but you are absorbed in something beyond self.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
We are not just at the center of this universe. We are only at the center to the extent that we give ourselves and our allegiance to God Almighty.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
How can we live in this universe with a balance and with a type of perspective that keeps us going smoothly and we are not too absorbed in self?
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
So don't boast, don't be arrogant. You, at that moment, rise out of your self-centeredness to the type of living that makes you an integrated personality.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
In time, somebody criticizes them, time somebody says something about them that they don't like too well, time they are disappointed, time they are defeated, even in a little game, they end up broken-hearted. They can't stand up under it because they are centered in self.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
This is the prayer I pray to God every day, "Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective." Because if I don't see that, I will become the biggest fool in America.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
We meet these people every day. And so this is not a foreign subject. It is not something far off. It is a problem that meets us in everyday life. We meet it in ourselves, we meet in other selves: the problem of self-centeredness.
Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)