If you know that you harbor within you kind thoughts and goodhearted feelings, that itself can be enough. If you lose heart just because no one else sees it, this is a sign you yourself do not truly appreciate the value of your positive thoughts and feelings. You need to delight in them yourself, and be heartened by their presence within you. You can actively appreciate them and feel that they make your existence meaningful. You more than anyone else have the resources to warm yourself from within.
17th Karmapa
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Further quotes from the book Interconnected :
- Becoming stuck in a quagmire of self-obsession
- Inner freedom is key
- The ability to experience genuine closeness
- Our innate ability to connect with others
- Enthusiastically benefiting whomever we come in contact with
- Enjoying the goodness of what you are doing
- Interdependence always works both ways
- Concealing our weaknesses
- A Vast and Complex Web of Causality
- A greater sense of possibility
- The impulse to connect
- Cultivating a spirit of generosity
- Interdependent individual
- Viewing others through the lens of interdependence
- Discovering new potentials
- Bringing about real change in the world
- Experiencing connection rather than isolation
- Recollecting kindness
- Focusing on our inner interdependence
- A genuine sense of affection