I give you their essence to absorb in your selfness.

We understand that there is an end, an absolute end, when this selfness will stop and never be again.

Having lost hope of ever returning to the source of everything, man sought solace in his selfness.

His sense of selfness had deserted him.

What you forgot, I think, me, was conscious Iintelligence is only a small part of the whole selfness.

She had fought the machine that way-pulled herself into a tight ball of selfness against its battering strength.

A sense of selfness, yes.

He had come to be aware of her selfness, to know her, in the small shadowy way of her children.

"Single entity of selfness," the Caleban said.

Some tried suppressing selfness, seeking detachment.

And shed my selfness.

Accompanying that was a vague discomfort, a kind of itch that was rapidly overwhelmed by the comfort of selfness unmasked.

Their sourness, their selfness... and their independence, once and later and now, from the physicality which houses them.

But leave it for the rural towns that exist beyond the shoulders of the highways, and your selfness returns as quickly as you can say Pigeon Forge.

But, because he performed so well, he started to develop a sense of selfness, which gave him the feeling that he could predict and plan the actions he was used to performing.

Now he knew what the red crow had meant by soul, and that a-religious quality of irreducible character, that selfness, would now articulate its most profound self-statement, in its own destruction.

Everyone is born nearer to God than to any ancestor, and it rests with him to cultivate either the godness or the selfness in him, his original or his mere ancestral nature.

The "selfness" of matter became an issue for these people: the (to us) seemingly mundane observation that the physical universe had existence, had weight, hard edges, "the dignity of existence," as one Contributor called it.

The deep, slow, scarce-moving selfness of the rock, the secret burning at the roofs, the earth's heavy veins running with the mountain's blood . . . they were her veins, her blood, her life.

The short-term effects of a withdrawal from the Federation-our little personal loss and pain, the small matter of exile or estrangement-do not weigh significantly against the loss of the diversity, the well-being, the selfness, of a whole species.

Instead of leaving only a perfect copying template behind-a healthy root substrate for his diseased soul to graft onto-my sense of selfness seems to grow and expand with each passing minute, in ways that no longer seem painful but more akin to voluptuous bliss.

There was something about the phrasing that made Jim hold stiU and look around him at Ms people, who moment by moment were becoming more real, burning with surpassing selfness as McCoy did with compassion and Spock did with knowing.

It does it - a something, no, not really - a not-something; it had no name, nor even any life; and it sensed his sudden incredible upsurge of life, of selfness - they sensed him, and were closing in, for such a feed as they had never had in all their centuries.