self-negation

Their final recommendation that innovative institutions should be required to conduct "ignorance-based deliberative activities" and "anticipatory self-negation activities" seems fun.

Et cetera: non-fiction choice – reviews 2011

In our recent book, BE THE CHANGE, we interviewed over 100 inspired people in all walks of life who verify the importance of transforming anger and self-negation into acceptance and generosity.

Ed and Deb Shapiro: Your Mind Is Like a Beautiful Garden, So Plant Happy Seeds! 2010

Charity, in other words, is an expression of our self-expansion, not of our self-negation.

The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

This is very different from the ancient Christian concept of charity, which was seen as a form of “grace,” by which the individual gives as an act of self-negation, transforming himself into a vessel for the transmission of the divine into the world.

The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

So we invite kindness into that self-negation and lack of self-esteem, until such uncertainty dissolves in love.

Ed and Deb Shapiro: Self-Esteem: The Feel Good Factor: It's All About You! 2010

Her parents are stunned by this self-negation, something theyd expected would appear in her adolescent years, not second grade.

Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

Masao Abe, "whereas nondualistic oneness includes self-negation and is nonsubstantial" (24-25).

Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007

"Monotheistic oneness does not include the element of self-negation and is substantial," writes

Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007

To refuse early release in Hanoi is self-negation for the greater good.

Is It Over? Debate Reveals That Dynamic Of Race Is Fixed In Obama's Favor 2009

There is no doubt that this strategy could only have emerged from those same literary margins to which the woman writer was consigned, for it was precisely these margins that afforded her an advantage by releasing her from any sense of obligation, self-negation or the need to pursue important groups or fashionable schools of thought.

Prose Writing in the Yishuv: 1882-1948. 2009