Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.
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In many respects, Arizona is a model for the rest of the country on best practices for water management.
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Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.
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There is an insect that people avoid (Whence is derived the verb 'to flee'). Where have you been by it most annoyed? In lodgings by the Sea.
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Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.
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The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East. Rather it is a tradition of human warrior-ship that has existed in many cultures at many times throughout history.
