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“Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.”

“To talk of the size of a thought is odd, perhaps, but to say that someone is thinking big thoughts is not without meaning. "I want you all to come to my birthday party" is a bigger thought than "I want only some of you to come." Bodhicitta is theoretically the biggest thought anyone can think because of the number of beings involved, what it wants them to have, and the length of time it must last before its motivating power dies out. Since the duration of a thought is a variable of the aim, in the sense that the actions motivated by a thought cease when the aim is attained, one can conceive of thoughts that last longer and longer. Bodhicitta necessarily lasts until the last living being reaches the state free of suffering, because it is only then that the aim is finally achieved. This explains the prayer of Samantabhadra at the end of the Gandavyūha section of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, which the Dalai Lama often invokes: "For as long as space endures may I remain to work for the benefit of living beings.”

“فأهدافنا خيوطٌ ندخلها واحدةً تلو الأخرى في ثقب الإبرة الضيق لقليل الصّبر، الواسع لطويل البال.. ندخلها مرّةً واثنتين وثلاثاً، حتّى إذا يئسنا وقارب الصبر النفاذ، دخلت.. فمِنّا من يتسرّع ويخرجها من الثّقب متوهماً دخولها.. ومنّا من يدرك بحنكته ضرورة التأنّي للوصول إلى المبتغى.”

“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”

“You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.”