Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPACompassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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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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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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.
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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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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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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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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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You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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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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