Chögyam Trungpa - People Quotes

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Chögyam Trungpa
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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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

Chögyam Trungpa
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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We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our 'self-improvement'.

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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.

Chögyam Trungpa