Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
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The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
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I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.
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By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
