Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAUltimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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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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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
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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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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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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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