Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism.

Chogyam Trungpa

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• Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Business
  • Success

• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • American
  • Results

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Black
  • Brother
  • Courage

• 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.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • School
  • Kind

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • You
  • Violence
  • Better

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Now

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Value

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Eyes
  • Battle
  • Crying

• I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, "How? I'm home alone reading chapter 12 of a book."

  

  Winona Ryder
  • College
  • Complex

• Faith, as the Bible teaches it, is faith in God coming against everything that contradicts Him- a faith that says, “I will remain true to God’s character whatever He may do.” The highest and the greatest expression of faith in the whole Bible is- “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15).

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Character

• I flew home to Pittsburgh, and my management called me to ask if I wanted to perform on 'Dancing With the Stars' with Charlie Puth. I'm like, 'What? I grew up watching the show!'

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Up
  • Home
  • Management

• Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Spiritual