Usually we are in a stalemate with our world: “Is he going to say he is sorry to me first, or am I going to apologize to him first?” But in becoming a bodhisattva we break that barrier: we do not wait for the
other person to make the first move; we have decided to do it ourselves.
-Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, The Bodhisattva Vow: Eight Views
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