#self-centered

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.

'What do you do?' she asked. He went on a monologue about mutual funds while she made pleasant, smiling exclamations. When he finished, he stared at her, waiting for her to ask him another question about himself.

Sh!t Christians Say

Astrology furnishes a magnificent proof of [the] miserable subjective tendency in men, which leads them to see everything only as bearing upon themselves, and to think of nothing that is not straightaway made into a personal matter. The aim of astrology is to bring the motions of the celestial bodies into relation with the wretched Ego, and to establish a connection between a comet in the sky and squabbles and rascalities on earth.