When you feel authentic love toward others, you will be deeply moved to act. You will not rest until you have found ways to secure the happiness of all those you are able to include in your feelings of love. As you learn to love more and more widely, your love will motivate you to act to benefit not just the few people in your inner circle, but your whole society, and eventually, the whole world. This makes love an immensely powerful basis for social action of any sort.
17th Karmapa
from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out
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Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:
- Loving Responsibility
- Making healthy relationships possible
- Facing Impermanence Wisely
- The kindness we receive from others
- We truly have everything we need already
- Our relationship to the material world
- Let the moon be the keeper of my love
- Capacity for Change
- Who are you
- True Wealth
- Taking delight in your inner nature
- We need space to grow and learn from our own mistakes
- Reality is your teacher
- Interdependent reality
- Social action
- Protective Inner Wisdom
- The Wealth of Contentment
- Life in Balance
- Boxing Love with Our Expectations