Our subject matter is benefiting others, working for others. To work for others, we have to work on ourselves. We have to love ourselves. We have to be gentle with ourselves. That is the basic point: as human beings, we need to develop gentleness, which is genuineness.

From Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala,  page 119.

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