“One should be addicted solely to the task that one is undertaking. One should be intoxicated by that task, insatiable, like someone hankering for the pleasure and the fruit of love-play.”
– Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, Crosby & Skilton tr. (7:62)
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