If to save one self for the greater self is considered a selfish trait. Then everyone should have the trait.

Resist not, just float; duck not, take psychological blows on chin.

When a lion goes for a kill, he doesn’t pay attention to squeaks of rats and shrieks of monkeys and so are the wise men, who undertake a new task.

Even the best among the brightest spiritual masters err, when the sense of specialness creeps in a perception of truth.

This is a lesson hard to digest, that even though you may be special there is nothing special about you.

If shooting oneself in one owns foot, saves another from shooting in his own head, then one should not hesitate to do it.