Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

-"Tenderness and sadness as well as gentleness produce a sense of interest. You are so vulnerable that you cannot help being touched by your world"

-"If you really want to secure yourself completely, there is no literally no limit to the efforts you can make. So it is necessary to drop altogether the whole concern"

-"At this point, having completely renounced his own comfort and privacy, paradoxically the warrior finds himself more alone. He is like an island sitting alone in the middle of a lake. Occassional ferry boats and commuters go back and forth between the shore and the island, but all that activity only expresses further loneliness, or the aloneness of the island. Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others. The fullness of this experience is his own and he must live with his own truth. Yes he is more and more in love with the world. 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. It is entering the warrior's world"

-"The warrior neves gives up"

-"Earth is my witness"

-"It is important to take an attitude of caring about your body"

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

-"It is always now"

-"In the Shambhala tradition, sense perceptions are regarded as sacred"

-"Drala or the natural wisdom. Discovering drala is to see with the heartso that waht is invisible to the eye becomes visible as the living magic of reality"

-"Attempting to prove that you are good indicates fear of some kind"

-"The continual ache of the heart broken open, is a blessing that when accepted fully can be shared with all"

-"Nothing to hold on to is the root of happiness"