Quotation by Hans Selye:
Egotism is the most characteristic, the most ancient, and the most essential property of life. All living beings, from the simplest amoeba to man, are of necessity closest to themselves and themost natural protectors of their own interests. ...Selfishness is natureal, yet it is ugly; we are so much repulsed by it that we try to deny its existence in ourselves. It is also dangerous to society. ...To me, even altruism is a modified form of egotism, a kind of collective selfishness that helps the community. Unconsciously, we sense that altruism engenders gratitude. By awakening in another person the wish that we should prosper because of what we have done for him, we elicit gratitude which is perhaps the most characteristically human way of assuring our security (homeostasis). It takes away the motive for a clash between selfish and selfless tendencies. By inspiring the feeling of gratitude, we induce others to share with us our natural wish for our own well being.
Hans Selye
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Source: From Dream To Discovery; On Being a Scie
Uttered: 1964
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
