Quotations: Shantideva, Bodhicharyavatara, This free and well-favoured human form...

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དལ་འབྱོར་འདི་ནི་རྙེད་པར་ཤིན་ཏུ་དཀའ། །

སྐྱེས་བུའི་དོན་སྒྲུབ་ཐོབ་པར་གྱུར་པ་ལ། །
གལ་ཏེ་འདི་ལ་ཕན་པ་མ་བསྒྲུབས་ན། །

ཕྱིས་འདི་ཡང་དག་འབྱོར་པ་ག་ལ་འགྱུར། །

This free and well-favoured human form is difficult to obtain.
Now that you have the chance to realise the full human potential
If you don’t make good use of this opportunity,
How could you possibly expect to have such a chance again?

Śāntideva, Introduction to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, I, 4