Without thinking that death will come, I am absorbed in plans for the future. After having done the many and futile activities of this life I will leave utterly empty-handed. What a blunder; as I will certainly need an understanding of the excellent dharma. So why not practice now?
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Padmasambhava
quoted in the book Luminous Mind: The Way of the Buddha
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