" For bodhisattvas, it isn’t enough to get what you need and desire, to protect yourself and your family, to accumulate wealth, security, and reputation. It’s not that bodhisattvas are against any of that; they too recognize these goals and desires as natural. It’s just that bodhisattvas are committed to a much more ambitious goal, a greater obligation, a higher and wider calling. They want much more joy, much more love, much more justice and well-being, for themselves and for everyone. Personal well being is only a means to this end. (p. 58) "

― Norman Fischer , The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path