In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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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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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that’s not the point. It’s developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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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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