I realize that even though I should possess the whole world, at my death I should have to give up everything; and so it will confer happiness in this and the next life if I give up everything now. I am thus pursuing a life which is quite opposite to that followed by the people of the world. Give up thinking of me as a living person.
Milarepa
from the book Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan
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