I shook his hand once at one of his meet and greets in McLeod Ganj. I didn't realise the significance of it at the time, I was more interested in spinning the prayer wheels. I also like this ...

"Some men are so anxious about the future that they do not enjoy the present. The result being, they live neither in the present nor the future, they live as if they are never going to die, then die having never really lived".