Shifting your concern from your own well-being to include a genuine concern for the other person can transform your relationships, and it can also transform you as a person. You can become a person who provides well-being to others, and who shoulders the burden for others, too. This is a very uncomplicated shift in outlook that can completely reorient your relationships. I think this outlook might yield the healthiest relationships of all.
17th Karmapa
from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out
translated by Ngodup Tsering Burkhar & Damchö Diana Finnegan
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Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:
- Boxing Love with Our Expectations
- We truly have everything we need already
- Interdependent reality
- Look what he did
- Balanced Life
- Who are you
- Let the moon be the keeper of my love
- Distinguishing between wants and needs
- Expanding our sense of ourselves
- Take joy in your sincere intentions
- Breaking barriers
- We need space to grow and learn from our own mistakes
- Facing Impermanence Wisely
- The Wealth of Contentment
- Greed is a recipe for dissatisfaction
- Social action
- True Wealth
- Life in Balance
- The intention to work for others
- The kindness we receive from others