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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Further quotes from the book On the Path to Enlightenment:

• Cut the knot of greed
• The four boundless qualities
• The ultimate nature of mind
• See the difference
• The enemies dwelling in your mind
• To end suffering
• Ever-present Buddha-Nature
• True compassion
• Detachment
• Our journey will have been useless
• Seeing the inner teacher
• Just as clouds
• You who have a precious human life
• Clarity and emptiness
• Whatever you do
• Free Perception
• Like gold hidden in its matrix
• Apply yourself unrelentingly to spiritual practice
• Right Time
• The alternation of thoughts