Ten Secret forms of Selfishness

To help get us started on this Higher Path to true selfless living, following is a short list of unconscious ways in which we are secretly selfish. Study this list and see where the conditions outlined apply to your own present behavior. For extra benefit, make a list of your own!

Ten Secret forms of Selfishness:

1.Being self-enclosed.
2.Dominating (or hiding out in) a conversation.
3.Inflexibility
4.Being impatient
5.Running chronically late
6.Self-loathing or self-pitying
7.Not listening
8.Complaining about anything
9.Gossiping
10.Daydreaming

Guy Finley

Complaining

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Eckhart Tolle