If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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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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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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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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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 are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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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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You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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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.
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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
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