Chögyam Trungpa Short Quotes

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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

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The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

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Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

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Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

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The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

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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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In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.

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If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

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The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

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If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

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The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

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Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

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The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

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We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

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Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

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

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Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

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Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

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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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As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

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The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

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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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