No intelligence, no power, no wealth or strength can help someone without diligence – he is like a boatman whose boat has everything but oars.

Jigme Lingpa

quoted in the book Words of My Perfect Teacher

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Further quotes from the book Words of My Perfect Teacher:

• Compassion
• Peerless Teacher, at your feet I bow
• The Six Paramitas
• Impermanence is everywhere
• May we realize the natural state
• Bright moon
• May our minds mingle with the Dharma
• Aspiration for renunciation
• The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation
• The Three Defects when listening to the Dharma
• Even the smallest amounts of merit
• Motivated by ordinary concerns
• Arousing Bodhicitta
• At your feet I bow
• Actions arising from anger
• Discovering Dharma
• No Life Guarantee
• Remembering impermanence
• The need to follow a spiritual teacher