An idea from The Way of the Bodhisattva

Then comes the central practice: see yourself and others as equal. Your hands and feet are many, but you guard them all as one body. In the same way, every being wants happiness and doesn’t want pain, just like you.

From The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva

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