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@@ -2778,7 +2778,7 @@ Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
 Time is flying never to return.
   -- Virgil
 ~
-It is not enough to succed.  Others must fail.
+It is not enough to succeed.  Others must fail.
   -- Gore Vidal
 ~
 There's a lot to be said for being noveau riche,
@@ -40313,3 +40313,47 @@ Nor made worse by sentient beings.
   -- from "Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and
      Buddha Nature", translated by Karl Brunnhölzl, published by Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+  It is possible to mistake attachment for loving-kindness and compassion.
+Love and compassion are distinguished from attachment in that they apply
+equally to your friends and your enemies.  Genuine love and compassion make no
+distinction based on your relationship to the object of compassion.  They are
+the wish that all sentient beings without exception have happiness and the
+causes of happiness, and the wish that all sentient beings without exception
+be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.  The keynote of those two
+attitudes is that there is no hope involved of any kind of return or any sort
+of personal satisfaction as a result of the happiness of others.
+  In the case of attachment to someone, you wish that person well but it is
+based on an identification with him or her as “my friend, my son, my
+daughter.”  This identification and this feeling of ownership or
+territoriality is related to wanting some kind of return.  You enjoy the
+happiness of that person because you have identified with him or her, and
+therefore in essence it is just wishing for your own benefit.  Such attachment
+can very easily turn to aversion, anger, and hatred.  That is the difference
+between compassion and attachment.
+  -- Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, from "The Instructions of Gampopa: A Precious
+     Garland of the Supreme Path", published by Shambhala Publications.
+~
+Sometimes it seems as if the mind is outside someplace.  We see all these
+things outside.  We see mountains or we hear echoes off of cliffs.  We have
+all these different thoughts of different places, and the mind seems to go to
+those places when we think about them.  But it only seems that way; the mind
+is not really outside of us either.  It dwells neither in external objects nor
+someplace in the body--we cannot find any place in the body where it is.  You
+might then think that since it is not in the body and it is not outside the
+body, it must be in the empty space in between.  But if you look, you cannot
+find it.  We need to look and become certain that the mind has no dwelling
+place--we must be certain that there is no real place that we can we can
+point to and say, “Aha!  That’s where it is!”
+  -- Khenchen Thrangu, "Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo
+     Gangshar", published by Shambhala Publications.
+~
+Not only are our adverse experiences beneficial for our own path, but they are
+the best way for us to connect with others.  Suffering is a universal
+experience.  This is why the Buddha chose suffering as the first topic of his
+teachings.  So when we connect with our own suffering, we can also recall that
+many beings all over the world are having similar experiences.  This helps us
+develop understanding, love, and compassion for others.
+  -- Rose Taylor Goldfield, in "Training the Wisdom Body: Buddhist Yogic
+     Exercise", published by Shambhala Publications.
+