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Instead, Mr. Oliver suggests, among other things, meditation and yoga, explaining how these Eastern practices can help up transcend our personal preoccupations and loosen the constraints of the ego’s self-obsession.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

It’s not about the pursuit of knowledge, it’s absolute self-obsession.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2024

Then there is his self-obsession — always pronounced, and in “Yoga” untrammeled.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2022

"But Mr Modi takes this self-obsession to another level," says Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, a journalist and Mr Modi's biographer.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2021

“Very much so, but after the laws of physical abstinence were adopted things mellowed out considerably, and men went back to their self-obsession, their material minds weren’t yet weaned from the physical realm.”

From The Revolutions of Time by Dunn, Jonathan