Bodhicitta

Bodhicitta or the awakening mind is called the mind turned towards supreme enlightenment. It is the highest thought we can have. In order to give rise to it, we must first develop the attitude that all beings have been our father, our best friend, and that all beings are like that. By thinking in that way, we are able to develop loving-kindness and compassion towards others and not only for a few others, but for all sentient beings. Loving-kindness means that we want all other beings to be happy and to have the causes of happiness always present within them. Compassion means that we want sentient beings to be completely free from suffering, and to always be free from the causes of any suffering. By training our minds in this loving-kindness and compassion, we give up the notion or the quest to make ourselves happy, we stop thinking so much about our own happiness, our own comfort, because we are concerned with others. Through the combination of all these ways we give rise to relative bodhicitta, which means that we develop the thought "i want to attain enlightenment for the benefit of others. That's the reason i am on this path"

~Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche~