Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
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New York is my home.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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You have to follow that next step.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I have no new voices - they've all been used.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
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Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
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What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and show them our theory as to why what we're talking about needs to be talked about.
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As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
