The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.
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The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
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Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Luxury is experiencing reality
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, ‘field of power’… The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
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Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.
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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
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