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 TRUNGPAChaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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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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Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
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I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
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Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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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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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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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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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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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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