The fact is that in the course of our myriad lifetimes, we have all done everything a human being can do, both good and evil, many times over. Sometimes we read about people doing appalling, inexplicably evil things and we might be tempted to think, "I could never do that!" Actually we have done such things many times in the past, so how can we judge anyone?
— Tenzin Palmo, Reflections on a Mountain Lake