Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived. Sangharakshita More Quotes by Sangharakshita More Quotes From Sangharakshita Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can be wicked, we can be stupid, we can be full of faults, we can backslide. In a sense, it doesn’t matter. But we must be spiritually receptive; we have to be willing and ready to learn. When we know that we do not know, everything is possible. Sangharakshita wicked stupid want Love where there is no reason to love Sangharakshita reason-to-love no-reason reason Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty. Sangharakshita poverty achievement expression To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life. Sangharakshita able whole art A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts. Sangharakshita empires relation ideas