What Shantideva says [Buddhist mini-pep-talk]

The dream surfacing of a (vague) "Tibetan reference" provoked me to flip thru one of the volumes at hand: Essence of Refined Gold -- instructive verse by the Third Dalai Lama, with commentary by the present Dalai Lama. The latter includes this passage I happened to flip to:
Shantideva: chap worth quoting.Shantideva wrote, "Even flies, mosquitoes and other insects will win peerless enlightenment when they make spiritual effort in some future life. Why should I -- who am born as a human and have the human capacity of a differentiating awareness able to discern skillful from unskillful ways -- not be able to attain it?"
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