"We
will see the interdependence of all beings, including
animals and plants, after we become enlightened, after
we know God intimately. In the end, we will see nothing
but ourselves existing everywhere, in each and every
being, in each and every particle of the universe.
That is how we can come to love our neighbors as ourselves,
because we know that this is us. Otherwise, no amount
of talk and persuasion can bring us to this kind of
voluntary state of love, to this automatic way of
kindness."
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Budapest, Hungary
May 24,1999 (Originally in English)