To be attached to the reality of phenomena, tormented by attraction and repulsion, and obsessed by the eight worldly preoccupations is what causes the mind to freeze. Melt the ice of your concepts so that the fluid water of free perception can flow.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

quoted in the book On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters

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