Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.
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I've always said, just go ask my teammates if you want to know about me. Go ask the guys that I've played with. Don't ask or get information about me from people who are not in the locker room or not around me all of the time. Then you'll get legit answers.
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What are we waiting for? Why is Jesus waiting in heaven at the right hand of the Father? Who is He waiting for? He is waiting for you and me to become mature, for the Bride of Christ to become mature, so that He can come again. Did you know that God has done everything He can do? If anything else is going to be done, we're going to do it.
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When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
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Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.
