Quotations: Shantideva, Bodhicharyavatara, Just as one understands the difference...

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འགྲོ་བར་འདོད་དང་འགྲོ་བ་ཡི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་ཇི་ལྟར་ཤེས་པ་ལྟར། །
དེ་བཞིན་མཁས་པས་འདི་གཉིས་ཀྱི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་རིམ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །

Just as one understands the difference
Between wishing to go and going on a journey,
The wise should understand these two,
Recognizing their difference and their order.

Śāntideva, Introduction to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, I, 16