You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have the problem of how to help them get free, because just by your knowing that they're essentially free, that doesn't free them. Just by your being blissful, it doesn't release them from their knot of separation and false self absolutization.

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow.

A lot of people, after seeking a bit, have some experience, and sometimes will believe they're enlightened. One has to be careful about that. Especially Americans, who are very external stimulus oriented. When they have some type of deep inner experience, often they think that was the ultimate experience.

What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.

If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.