When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.
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You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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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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When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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