Focusing on all sentient beings, practice the four boundless qualities: love, which is the wish that they be happy; compassion, the wish that they be free from suffering; sympathetic joy, which is to feel happy when they are happy; and impartiality, which is to treat them impartially as equals, without attachment or aversion.
Kangyur Rinpoche
from the book On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters
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