There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAToo often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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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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Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
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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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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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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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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
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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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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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In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
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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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