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The actual author behind the sentiment of this quote is a fellow named Jim Brown.

I discovered another side to this quote, a cautionary tale about the validity of info on the internet which reminds us all that it’s up to each of us to examine and question and verify the validity of “facts” we all too often assume are true but prove to be artful misrepresentations of fact. I thought it would be helpful to find the interview or work in which it first appeared. I wanted to learn more about the sentiment expressed and so I sought a further context for it. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present the result being that he does not live in the present or the future he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. “When asked what surprised him about humanity the most, the Dalai Lama replied: It’s a great quote and very wise and true. The first piece concerns a poster circulating widely on the internet featuring a quote attributed to the Dalai Lama. Now the impulse forms to connect the bits together, to find the common thread and draw it through, to find the plot of the story there and arrange it until it is orderly and coherent, and arrange it in a sequence of words – nothing more, really, than a personalized totem of gathered bits of feather and bone – which make sense to me. The past days have produced a surfeit of input which churns inchoately within. On the porch with coffee early this late July morning the valley is still even the blue jay who comes to instigate an argument in the cedars gives up for lack of opposition and leaves me in silence.