Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.
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If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone.
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I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
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While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
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A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.
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We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.
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I studied a lot of Foghorn Leghorn.
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Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.
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My eye was literally pushed out of the socket. The pain was so bad, it was past being a headache. There's no such thing as a headache like that.
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
