When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death’s approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head.

— Milarepa

Milarepa Quotes

In horror of death, I took to the mountains – again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

— Milarepa
Buddhist

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

— Milarepa

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

— Milarepa

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

— Milarepa
Practice

If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.

— Milarepa

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

— Milarepa

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

— Milarepa

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick.

— Milarepa

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

— Milarepa

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?

— Milarepa
Buddhist

Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

— Milarepa

Know emptiness, Be compassionate.

— Milarepa
Buddhist

My religion is not deceiving myself.

— Milarepa
Truth

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

— Milarepa
Serenity Satisfaction Buddhist Desire Simplicity

Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.

— Milarepa
Buddhist About Water

In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.

— Milarepa

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

— Milarepa

One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

— Milarepa

When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death’s approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head.

— Milarepa

Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.

— Milarepa
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