If you have a supportive sangha, it’s easy to nourish your bodhicitta, the
seeds of enlightenment. If you don’t have anyone who understands you, who
encourages you in the practice of the living dharma, your desire to practice
may wither. Your sangha—family, friends, and copractitioners—is the soil,
and you are the seed. No matter how vigorous the seed is, if the soil does
not provide nourishment, your seed will die. A good sangha is crucial for
the practice. Please find a good sangha or help create one.
– Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Fertile soil of Sangha”