Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.

Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want.

We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourself, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feelings.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.