You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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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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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.
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Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
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To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
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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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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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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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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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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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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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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