Cultivation of tolerance, which leads to compassionate behavior, follows a precise pattern of development: (1) contemplating the faults of hate; (2) contemplating the benefits of tolerance; (3) preventing the cause of hate; (4) meditating on tolerating voluntary suffering; (5) meditating on tolerance grounded in the awareness of reality; and (6) meditating on the tolerance of nonretaliation.
— Robert Thurman, Inner Revolution