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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  "I'm so selfless! I'm so generous! I give stuff away, look at me, that makes me awesome!" |
See? Your selflessness isn't selfless at all. I know you are trying to show me an example if how a selfless act can be selfish but all you really did was to show how an APPARENTLY selfless act can be ruined with a selfish attitude.
Mother Teresa didn't give the entirety of her life to the poor just so she would win the Nobel Peace Prize and become a saint. She did it out of the goodness of her heart. She did it because she couldn't bear to know that there was suffering.
The end result is not what makes an act selfish or selfless. It's the desire in the heart. WHY did you do the act? Is the act "of the self" or "less the self?"