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Defeating selfishness
There is no lasting satisfaction for anyone when selfishness gets its way. Selfishness may get the better of those who indulge it, but it cannot best those who refuse to give it power.
Whoever would utterly defeat selfishness must heal himself of believing in self-interest as a help or a hindrance to the unfolding of good. Mere willful countermeasures can't defeat this sin. What is required is a growing understanding of good as God, Spirit—as limitless and universal. Such growth involves dropping the mistaken conception of many egos, some domineering and some dominated. Becoming better acquainted with the one Ego, God, enables us to bring forth, through meekness and unselfishness, our true nature as Godlike, spiritual man.

February 10, 1986 issue
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A spiritual answer to loneliness
ROBIN JAGEL
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Forgiveness and healing
BARBARA COOK
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Daystar
ELIZABETH KEYES WILLIAMS
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Gratitude: do we think it's owed us?
MARION H. STEKOLL
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Single parent
FAITH WALSH HEIDTBRINK
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Evil isn't a noun or pronoun ... or verb
KENNETH A. NELSON
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Insecurity: impossible in God's kingdom
ELIZABETH LEE LOKEY
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Prayer and the healing of mankind's animosities
BARBARA-JEAN STINSON
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Defeating selfishness
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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I have had the great blessing of being brought...
ANDREW E. GIBSON
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One day I was on an outing with some friends
ERIN ARTHUR with contributions from JILL J. ARTHUR
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I am told that in the early 1900s my aunt was quickly healed...
ALICE W. KOEGLER