We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?

Shantideva

Bodhicaryāvatāra

quoted in the book No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva


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