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When we are in the presence of a really kind or compassionate person who smiles a lot, there seems to be a greater tendency to say things like, "they're just a really great guy," to perceive kindness and compassion as self-existing traits that a person either possesses or else, just kind of doesn't have.

Ethan Nichtern: Compassion Is Something You Train In Ethan Nichtern 2011

Thus, there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which energy just dissipates.

Five Reasons You Won't Die M.D. Robert Lanza 2011

When we are in the presence of a really kind or compassionate person who smiles a lot, there seems to be a greater tendency to say things like, "they're just a really great guy," to perceive kindness and compassion as self-existing traits that a person either possesses or else, just kind of doesn't have.

Ethan Nichtern: Compassion Is Something You Train In Ethan Nichtern 2011

The simpler and, in my view, better explanation is that a mind or intelligence is the self-existing (or ontologically self-contained) thing that transcends the universe.

Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

The simpler and, in my view, better explanation is that a mind or intelligence is the self-existing (or ontologically self-contained) thing that transcends the universe.

Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

Here, “spiritual” refers to the self-existing healthiness that every one of us possesses.

Shambhala Sun - Beyond Present, Past, and Future Is The Fourth Moment, By Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche William Harryman 2009

For thousands of years people believed that God the Father, God Jehovah, God the self-existing one, was the Creator.

101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

It's a sense of immovability and self-existing dignity rather than that you are trying to fight with something else.

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week: Warriorship William Harryman 2007

For thousands of years people believed that God the Father, God Jehovah, God the self-existing one, was the Creator.

101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

For that we must accept that matter is eternally self-existing (whether in some potential form or not) and that life is chemical.

Courting the Theists 2005