There is a right time for everything. Farmers know when the time has come to plow, to sow, or to harvest, and they never fail to do each job when it is necessary. Now that you are in full possession of your faculties, have met a teacher, and have received his instructions, will you let the filed of liberation lie uncultivated?
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
quoted in the book On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters
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