We're All in the Same Boat
Consider this: Everyone, without exception, is in the same boat, subject to similar conditions, challenges, and suffering. How can anyone knowing this harbor anger or ill will toward another?
If you look around you with intellectual and intuitive sensitivity, it becomes evident that we are here to help each other grow into graceful, elegant, loving, and compassionate beings—light beings and beings of light! We are here to serve. To give. To sacrifice.
–Ajahn Sumano Bhikkhu, from Meeting the Monkey Halfway (Samuel Weiser, Inc.)
