Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.
Quotes to Explore
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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When annual elections end, there slavery begins.
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When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.
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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
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Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.
