Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAA great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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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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Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
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If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. 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.
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn’t have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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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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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