The common enemy of all religious disciplines is selfishness of mind. For it is just this which causes ingorance, anger and passion, which are at the root of all the troubles of world.

Since beginningless past, all sentient beings and I have been parents and children, brothers and sisters to each other. Being full of greed, hatred and ignorance, pride, conceit, dishonesty, deception and all other afflictions, we have therefore harmed each other, plundering, raping and killing, doing all manner of evil. All sentient beings are like this-because of passions and afflictions they do not respect or honor each other; they do not agree with or obey each other, they do not defer to each other, they do not edify or guide-each other, they do not care for each other-they go on killing and injuring each other, being enemies and malefactors to each other.

It was a childish ignorance but now, Tis little joy; To know I am farther off from heaven, Then when I was a boy.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.