Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe 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.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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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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To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
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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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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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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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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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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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Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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