Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.