“the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.”
“The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
“There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.”
“This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.”
“No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.”