When you feel authentic love toward others, you will be deeply moved to act. You will not rest until you have found ways to secure the happiness of all those you are able to include in your feelings of love. As you learn to love more and more widely, your love will motivate you to act to benefit not just the few people in your inner circle, but your whole society, and eventually, the whole world.
17th Karmapa
from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out
Read a random quote or see all quotes by the 17th Karmapa.
Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:
- Capacity for Change
- Finding our nobility of heart
- Taking delight in your inner nature
- Difference without Division
- My trust is a gift
- There are no fixed starting points
- Loving Responsibility
- Boxed limitless potential
- Look what he did
- Our life is vast
- Just Love
- We truly have everything we need already
- Disconnected from our own noble heart
- Interdependent reality
- Who are you
- Our relationship to the material world
- Making healthy relationships possible
- Take joy in your sincere intentions
- Distinguishing between wants and needs
- Breaking barriers