Prajnaparamita

Subhuti, how does a person first feel a need to save beings?
He becomes aware of that kind of wise insight
Which shows him beings as on their way to destroying themselves.
Great compassion then takes hold of him.
He surveys the world, and what he sees fills him with agitation.

So such a person radiates great friendliness
And compassion over all these beings
And gives his attention to them, thinking,
"I would like to save these beings,
I would like to release them from all their sufferings."
But he does not make this desire into an attachment,
For even he never turns his back on full enlightenment.