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The ability to focus attention on doing something for the sake of others

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Usage examples (34)
  • As Jantsch put it, evolution is “self-transcendence through self-organization.”
  • I have termed this constitutive characteristic “the self-transcendence of human existence.”
  • At the top of the pyramid not shown in the diagram Maslow placed the need for self-transcendence.
  • Exploration, evolution, and self-transcendence are but different perspectives on the same process.
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