Unless we make pure prayers of aspiration with unceasing compassion and bodhicitta, in the knowledge that there is not a single being among the three realms or the six classes who has not been our mother or father in the past, we will not unlock the treasury of altruism.

Longchenpa
A Mirror Revealing the Crucial Points: Advice on the Ultimate Meaning
translated by Adam Pearcey
source: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/ultimate-meaning
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