Deep within ourselves, it's important to maintain invincible compassion and inexhaustible patience. It's not a matter of either passively submitting to the mercy of anyone who attacks us, or trying to eliminate them by force (there'll always be more to come), but discovering that our major adversary is the desire to harm others - something we'll need to combat mercilessly. That's what we have to understand and, as much as we can, get others to see, too.
-Jean-Francois Revel and Matthieu Ricard, The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
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