Regardless of any virtuous acts we engage in, first we need to generate bodhicitta. Even a seemingly insignificant act, such as making a lamp offering to buddhas, or making offering of incense or making one prostration, we need to first think that all sentient beings have been my parents, I’m making this lamp offering for the benefit of all sentient beings. Like this, we need to give rise to this motivation first.

~Depicted from LUMINOUS WISDOM BOOK SERIES