“Having meditated on gentleness and on compassion,
I have forgotten the difference between myself and others.”

—  Milarepa

From the song offered to Geshe Tsaphoua, as quoted in Meditation Techniques of the Buddhist and Taoist Masters (2003) by Daniel Odier, p. 104 https://books.google.it/books?id=9BXTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA104

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