When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Awakening to voidness of one's mind and illusory grasping of consciousness appear to be alike, but don't be hoodwinked. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation. Once you have met with the profound instructions… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
