All other virtues are like the plantain tree:
They bear their fruit, and then they are no more.
Yet constantly the marvellous tree of bodhicitta
Yields fruit and, undiminished, grows forevermore.
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Shantideva
Bodhicaryāvatāra, Chapter 1, verse 12
translated by Adam Pearcey
source: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/indian-masters/shantideva/bodhicharyavatara-1
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