Before it is too late ~ Padmasambhava

However industrious you may be, There is no end to worldly activities; But if you practice the Dharma You will swiftly conclude everything.

However nice they may seem, Samsaric affairs always end in disaster; But the fruits of practicing the Dharma Will never deteriorate.

Since beginningless time you have collected and encouraged Karma, negative emotions, and habitual tendencies, Which force you to wander in samsara. If you continue like that, when will liberation arrive?

If you only see all this at the moment of death, It’s rather too late - When the head’s already been severed, What use is any medicine? Recognizing the suffering of samsara, Turn toward the peace of nirvana.

– Padmasambhava

quoted in the book “The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva”