The major source of our insensitive behavior here is self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 14 Adjusting Our Innate Mental Factors] Reference

The best grief is over what we gave away in our blind self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shepherd’s Song] Reference

You simply can't get around the narrow self-interest and self-preoccupation implicit in that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romney Campaign: Remark About Sons Was Taken Out Of Context] Reference

Nor is it the automatically arising self-preoccupation of apprehending everything in terms of "me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Eight] Reference

If we look at this, we can see how it is the source of self-preoccupation, worry, nervousness, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising ��� Day Two: The First Seven Links] Reference

What we are trying to do is to get out of this self-preoccupation as if we were the center of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to Meditation on Voidness (Emptiness) ��� Session Two: Identifying the False "Me"] Reference

But in "Thank you for Hating my Book" I'm laughing at myself, and at the anxiety and self-preoccupation of writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Feige: Feminist Smackdown: How Katha Pollitt's Comic Counter-Punch Trounced Ana Marie Cox's Uber-Snideness] Reference

To that end, perhaps what is needed is to offer fodder to inflate the self-preoccupation of that right-wing shark-osphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Wellington Ennis: The Monkey, The Organ Grinder, & the Swift Boating of Van Jones] Reference

Self-improvement, then, is the focus; but in doing this, we have to try to avoid the extreme of narcissistic self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integrating Dharma into Our Lives] Reference

Are all moments of mind that arise thinking "me" included in the ranks of the self-preoccupation of apprehending things in terms of "me"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Eight] Reference

We now live in a world in which dictators like Milosevic and North Korea's Kim Jong Il can nimbly test the limits of America's self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albright's Old World Ways] Reference

These factors, however, merely aggravate the deeper causes that have always been the case – self-preoccupation, insecurity, fear, and confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� Preface] Reference

The mercantile establishment uses the media to promote consumerism, which feeds the individualistic viruses of self-gratification and self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts for Obama and Clinton Down the Stretch: What True Change Involves] Reference

So long as we maintain our self-preoccupation apprehending the aggregate factors of our experience in terms of such a "me," we commit impulsive karmic actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Eight] Reference

If we shun the hospital because of fear of emotion overwhelming us, we can apply deconstruction techniques to overcome the self-preoccupation causing our fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 15 Unblocking Our Feelings] Reference

This “trance” brings with it a high degree of self-consciousness even self-preoccupation and interferes with making connections with others and developing a sense of belonging.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry of Calm] Reference

On the simplest level, if we can relax our self-consciousness, our insecurity, our self-preoccupation, this gives us a clue as to what it might be like to have some level of this understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth ��� Session One: Letting Down the Walls] Reference

Such a view of ourselves generates self-preoccupation, self-importance and selfishness, which in turn give rise to all our difficulties in life and prevent us from being of fullest help to others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 5 The Deeper Levels of Mahamudra Meditation] Reference

The term narcissism is defined as excessive love or admiration of oneself or a psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darren Littlejohn: The 12 Steps: An Antidote For Celebrities And Other Narcissistic Addicts] Reference

All the various aspects of this entire literature on the seven points for cleansing and training our attitudes and all the other Lojong texts are really aiming at overcoming selfishness and self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Explanation of Seven-Point Attitude-Training ��� Part Two: Points Five and Six] Reference

If we have really trained ourselves and cleansed our attitudes of selfishness and self-preoccupation, then we can die happily, because we have built up causes to be able to continue in future lives to help others.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Explanation of Seven-Point Attitude-Training ��� Part Three: Point Seven] Reference

Therefore, this (object of your self-preoccupation) cannot be a (truly existent) “self,” because (if it were, it would also have to be the object of my self-preoccupation and this) cannot be ascertained (to be so).    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Hundred Verse Treatise on the Actions of a Bodhisattva's Yoga ��� Chapters 9 - 12] Reference

How indeed can we Americans sleep at night, when at some level, we must all know that we had the world at our command, and that bit by bit we divested that treasure for widgets, entertainment, oversized bank accounts, and the right to eternal self-preoccupation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alison Rose Levy: Reflections On Sleep, And The Earthquake In Haiti] Reference

The third is the force of eliminating all at once, which means to give up completely, all at once, what we have set our minds on giving up: our selfishness, our disturbing attitudes, our self-preoccupation, our grasping for a truly established self, and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Five: Relative Bodhichitta and Deepest Bodhichitta] Reference

Such realization enables us not only to meditate more properly on the conventional nature of mind and experience, but also eventually to free ourselves from self-preoccupation and selfishness, which cause us to create all our problems for ourselves and prevent us from effectively helping others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 5 The Deeper Levels of Mahamudra Meditation] Reference

Now you've forced the targets of your obsessive self-preoccupation to sell?.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Record Article Feed] Reference

In women, narcissism tends to be expressed through a self-preoccupation, a dramatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

His complete self-preoccupation came as a relief to them all, if only as a counter-irritant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fashion in Shrouds]

"There's no question that it gives life a greater meaning when we make this kind of shift in the direction of others and get away from our own self-preoccupation and problems," said Stephen G. Post, director of the Center for Medical.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Alex: Yes, when we get angry like that, that’s called self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to Meditation on Voidness (Emptiness) ��� Session Two: Identifying the False "Me"] Reference

With self-preoccupation, we are always looking at just ourselves and don’t pay attention to anybody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integrating Dharma into Our Lives] Reference

But we have to be careful that it doesn’t spill over into self-preoccupation and narcissism and become the only thing we are focusing on such that we don’t care about anybody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising ��� Day One: Unawareness] Reference

That’s narcissistic self-preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to Meditation on Voidness (Emptiness) ��� Session Two: Identifying the False "Me"] Reference

And when teenagers are digging, pulling weeds, washing, planting, hammering, mopping, cooking, reading, singing, or building, they have a chance to escape from themselves: from overthinking, from their self-preoccupation and their self-doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blessing of a B Minus] Reference