Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

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• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

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• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

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• I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.

  

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• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

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• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

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• I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

  

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• Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Lies
  • Impulse
  • Fuzzy