Quotes from Milarepa

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

However beautiful a song may be, it is just a tune to those who do not understand its meaning.

He who avoids misunderstandings, Amused at the play of his own mind, Is ever joyful.

If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart; If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be; And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me; And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.

The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don't care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha

I trained my spirit in method.

At firs,money is like the wish-fulfilling Gem Later,it becomes indispensable In the end;you feel like a penniless beggar These are my thoughts and feelings on money So I renounced both wealth and goods

When one comes to the essence of being, The shining wisdom of reality Illumines all like the cloudless sky.