an inspiring quote (and reminder) from the Dalai Lama...

"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
sufferings and so on, we will see that many of these
problems and direct and indirect consequences of
undisciplined negative states of mind. and where do
these come from? from this powerful combination of
self-centeredness and the belief in our independent
existence. by shifting our attention to the wider
world in this way, we begin to appreciate the
immensely destructive consequences of such
thinking..."
~Dalai Lama, 2000