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1. The word from the men of his Hold that pass thru here occasionally paints a picture of a man obsessed with his own self-importance
2. As she made her way back through the servants’ camp, she noticed more soldiers moving about than she would normally expect, and some Alit’aren swaggering with self-importance through the firelight
3. That would be a frightening proposition! By ―somebody‖, I mean the tendency many of us have of attaching far greater importance to ourselves than many of us justly merit, inclined as we oftentimes are of internalizing our self-importance
4. This attitude is common among high-brow individuals who, inspired by their own (conceited) self-importance, are oftentimes likely to complicate simple matters for their (own) intended purposes of being ―misunderstood,‖ or for others, a cover-up for their ineptitude!
5. The Motion Picture industry has enjoyed a long running fetish with strong, physically intimidating women routinely beating up on or otherwise skillfully out-maneuvering the obnoxious designs of pretentious, self-centered males filled with a heightened sense of their (own) self-importance; convenient foils portrayed as anachronistic, insensitive, chauvinistic types deserving an occasional thrashing every so often from women scorned or in response to inopportune or unsolicited (sexual) banterings or harmless wisecracks intended to make a definitive statement about strong women coming of age
6. is transmitted, but self-importance
7. What else gives our souls a fighting chance against the ego? But money and indulgence, along with self-importance, dominates our lives
8. While the insane person considers a life spiritually rewarding that involves sharing, a sane person thinks of him/herself and their choices are based on self-importance
9. important but self-importance is not the way to appreciate this
10. But stepping out of the bubble of self-importance where you may have spent your whole life is scary!
11. obtain a sense of self-importance
12. There are those who are self-serving, who seek advancement at all cost, who clamour and climb over others to be in front, their self-importance and ambition destroys all thought of helping others, they are people who can ‘kill with a look’, who can destroy with a word, who want and maintain power for prestige and status
13. filled with self-importance led the way
14. As he grew up, he had exaggerated ideas about his self-importance
15. You are the product of a home where the parents bear each other a sincere affection, and therefore you have not been overloved so as injuriously to exalt your concept of self-importance
16. The fate of the company was largely in the hands of a very weak minded individual with an over inflated sense of self-importance
17. ” She paused to allow me a moment to set up this picture in my mind, before she said, “Let’s say that one Portion is an ancient Egyptian seer who chooses to exhibit restraint on her self-importance, whereas another Portion, a psychic in modern day New Orleans, desires to exhibit his assumed power and wields it unwisely
18. In this way, he realized that self-importance had caused him to lose his wife and children, who came daily to the walls of the prison to draw attention to his plight
19. Self-importance causes us to think we are the center of the universe, and we are therefore affronted at every turn that challenges our majesty, or perceived subservience
20. The effect was like walking up the down escalator blindfolded, then she’d bond with me by sharing insights about the difficulties of teaching in general, which were the other side of the coin most apprentices had in learning: Jokingly, but not, she said whereas I had to get my self-importance in check, she had to kick-start her ruthlessness, because she was robbing me of learning opportunities
21. Predictably, this led to her dealing with how frustration, as a manifestation of self-importance, turns people into lunatics; I redoubled my efforts, but she always found something to comment on
22. She then drew threads to my judgment, intolerance, and impatient self-importance, tying that bundle of observations neatly into a package of eventual cruelty I had yet to recognize, but all of the elements were there for me to view
23. Of these well-defined core practices, from early on I had been interested in exploring the one that had become the bane of my life, within layers of exquisitely refined personal camouflages—it was called Losing Self-importance
24. “One of the fastest ways of slaying self-importance(22) is through a profound life recapitulation, to determine the reasons you did what you did, find the essence of those actions, and follow the disciplines that cause you to stop making those choices by practicing the not-doings of the self
25. Stumbling through the placement of the pieces, I eventually concluded that the boring repetition of one's self-esteem consists of constantly expanding and espousing one’s personal history, thereby upholding and enhancing their sense of self-importance, while they’re living as if someone else should clean up after them, and as if they will never die
26. This is why, she explained, that she had regularly reviewed and revised my earliest lessons on issues of self-confusion—poor grammar—greed, need, and neglect, when my biggest hurdle remained self-importance
27. The bottom line of this advice was for Bonnie to attack the source of the blockage in her students’ thinking, which is invariably self-importance
28. The techniques I have mentioned over the course of these volumes are disciplines that, for practical purposes, deal with losing self-importance
29. Predictably, this led to her dealing with how frustration, as a manifestation of self-importance, turns people into lunatics, and I redoubled my efforts, but she always found something to comment on
30. Of these practices, from early on I had been interested in exploring the one that had become the bane of my life, within layers of exquisitely refined personal camouflages—it was called Losing Self-importance
31. So I already knew that saying nothing, in total defiance to my self-importance shouting “dig me!” was an excellent place to start
32. motivation of those in control, it's necessary to remember the first rule of the ego: perception is limited by self-interest and self-importance
33. “For the nagual Julian, self-importance was a monster that had three thousand heads
34. The first way was to sever each head one at a time; the second was to reach that mysterious state of being called the place of no pity, which destroyed self-importance by slowly starving it; and the third was to pay for the instantaneous annihilation of the three-thousand-headed monster with one’s symbolic death
35. ” – Carlos Castaneda, The Power of Silence In this article we will examine the second way of destroying self-importance, ignoring for the moment the question of exactly what self-importance is; and why it should be destroyed
36. In our society we are trained to do this by self-importance
37. In other words, self-importance is generated from, or is propped up by, self-pity: by an interminable inner dialogue of me-me-me-me-me thoughts
38. , of losing self-importance
39. There are various techniques (such as Active Imagination) for doing this; and these techniques are applications of the nagual Julian’s first way of losing self-importance (cutting off each head one at a time)
40. This very sentiment is often expressed by people who lose part of their lower self willy-nilly after a near brush with death (the nagual Julian’s third method for losing self-importance)
41. However, I can’t say that the aftermath of this experience made a major dent in my ongoing loss of self-importance
42. UP politicians tend to have an exaggerated sense of self-importance and believe that no one knows their state like they do
43. ‘I think you’re imagining things,’ she said, as she gathered her wits, ‘Are you not assuming undue self-importance these days?’
44. by a grandiose sense of self-importance
45. Such external studies consist chiefly of the Muhammadan Tradition (Hadis) and law books of the fanatical medieval stamp - a sort of learning which fills the youthful brain with windy self-importance, and gives rise to bitter schisms on the most trivial points within the College walls
46. Being spoiled as a child may create a false sense of self-importance or
47. This is why we constantly idealize ourselves and overestimate our significance and indulge in our own self-importance
48. they are misinformed by misinformation that gives them a presumed self-importance
49. Tarden, his escort, self-importance reared its ugly head, but he discarded such notions
50. This attitude and spirit of judgment towards others, this sense of self-righteousness, is often based on an inner sense of personal pride, self-importance and arrogance that we possess, and which also may be exacerbated and triggered by personal ignorance and personal fear of the unknown and so, a fear of Self, others, the world and the Creator