For some absurd reason, we seem to prefer dislike and ill will to our potential for love. If we were to practice love and compassion, we would live in a different world, and also our mass media would be filled with totally different contents. The reason for this absurdity is that loving consists in giving and therefore letting go of self-cherishing, which is never easy to do. Dislike, however, is based on hate, and we are proud of our discriminatory abilities, so that rejection is closer to the surface out of habit and self-endorsement. But all of us have the ability to reverse this trend.
— Ayya Khema, Visible Here and Now