You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAGentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.
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For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
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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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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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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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That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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We 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.
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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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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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful.
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