Elder Neal A. Maxwell
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Unselfish submissiveness should be our path in life.
"Unselfishness is best grown in the family garden, and diligently performing seemingly ordinary church duties can further help us overcome selfishness."
A real cure is meekness — for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it.
"Selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion."
Familiar forms of selfishness include: building up self at the expense of others, claimingor puffing credit, being glad when others go wrong and resenting the genuine success of others.
"Selfishness is actually the detonator of all the cardinal sins. It is the hammer for the breaking of the Ten Commandments, whether by neglecting parents, the Sabbath, or by inducing false witness, murder and envy. No wonder the selfish individual is often willing to break a covenant in order to fix an appetite."
Selfishness can magnify a mess of pottage into a banquet and make 30 pieces of silver look like a treasure trove.
