Expecting a lot from people, you do a lot of smiling.
Needing many things for yourself, you have many needs to meet.
Making plans to do first this, then that, your mind’s full of hopes and fears.
From now on, come what may, don’t be like that.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones

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