Self................................................

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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves

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The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.  When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.  
     This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs.  In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

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The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.  What looks like giving a hand is often a holding on for dear life.  Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless.  There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered life for a selfless life, we gain enormously in self-esteem.  The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

-Eric Hoffer, as excerpted from The True Believer:  Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

I am sure it will come to me, but until it does, my deep appreciation to whoever it was who pointed me to Hoffer.