Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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I do things that are bad for myself, and my friends, and my health, and my world so I can get more power because I think I need that power to do good things.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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Once in a while, I have the chance to speak to students. I learn from them as much as they learn from me. It's a great dialogue to create.
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In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
