If there is a way to become free from misery, one should use each moment to achieve it. Only the fool wants more pain: A melancholy scene, knowingly eating poison.

7th Dalai Lama
quoted in the book On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters
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- Whatever you do
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