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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
Sogyal Rinpoche
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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being human - is to be happy. All of us share the same wish, and the same right, to seek happiness and avoid suffering. Even following a spiritual path, or the religious life, is a quest for happiness.
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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