Robot Monk Xian'er

To act upon our good intentionIf we do not open our heart, if we thinktoo much of ourselves, if our big ego fills every corner of our mind, leavingno room for others, we will feel isolated as a result. If we set ourselves highabove others, thinking no one would understand us nor could we change others,we will tend to run further and further away from people and feel lonely. Friend is a relative term. Only when webefriend others can we have friends. When we say “I need a friend”, weshouldn’t think first of what we can obtain from this friend. Instead, we needto give. We need to offer our attention, company, patient listening and a spacein the heart to embrace our friends. When we open our heart to care morepeople, to give more people warmth, we bring sunshine to ourselves too. Themore people we hold in our heart, the richer and warmer we ourselves will feel. Even when we are alone, we need to keepsome softness in our heart and do a little bit of good everyday. For example,in unpopulated areas, we may