Milarepa Quotes

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• Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
• In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the…
• Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.
• You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.
• Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
• 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…
• Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.
• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions,…
• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of…
• All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in…
• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead,…
• I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.
• In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling…
• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick
• One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.
• Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life..
• He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
• In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.
• In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.
• My religion is not deceiving myself.

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