hilitehead

“If we shift our focus from ourselves to others and to the wider world, and if we turn our attention to all the crises in the world, all the difficulties and the suffering and so on, we will see that many of these problems are direct in-indirect consequences of undisciplined negative states of mind. And where do these come from? From this powerful combination of self-centerdness and the belief in our independent existence. By shifting our attention to appreciate the immensely destructive consequences of such thinking.”