new fortune.

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@@ -39120,3 +39120,25 @@ spiritual path is something that one already possesses.  Intrinsic freedom is
 itself the path that leads to the actualization of the goal.
   -- from the Translator's Introduction, "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One,
      Myriad Worlds", by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
+~
+  If we realize, “I am a human being.  A human being can do anything,”
+this determination, courage, and self-confidence are important sources of
+victory and success.  Without will power and determination, even something
+that you might have achieved easily cannot be achieved.  If you have will
+power and reasonable courage—not blind courage but courage without
+pride—even things that seemed impossible at a certain stage turn into being
+possible because of continuing effort inspired by that courage.  Thus,
+determination is important.
+  How can this be developed?  Not through machines, not by money, but by our
+own inner strength based on clear realization of the value of human beings, of
+human dignity.  For, once we realize that a human being is much more than just
+material, much more than just money, we can feel the importance of human life,
+from which we can feel the importance of compassion and kindness.
+  Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering.  With that
+feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering,
+and everyone has the basic right to do this.  In this way, all here are the
+same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner,
+believer or nonbeliever, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian,
+Jewish, Muslim, and so on.  Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value
+we are all the same.
+  -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight"