The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when lif… - Noah Levine

Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

Forgiveness is not just a selfish pursuit of personal satisfaction or righteousness. It actually alleviates the amount of suffering in the world. As each one of us frees ourselves from clinging to resentments that cause suffering, we relieve our friends, family, and community of the burden of our unhappiness. This is not a philosophical proposal; it is a verifiable and practical truth. Through our suffering and lack of forgiveness, we tend to do all kinds of unskillful things that hurt others. We close ourselves off from love, for example, out of fear of further pains or betrayals. This alone—a lack of openness to the love shown to us—is a way that we cause harm to our loved ones. The closed heart lets no one in or out.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.