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Us Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa
- The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we…
- Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists.…
- The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves.…
- We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and…
- But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to…
- In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than…
- The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.
- One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us,…
- When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making…
- Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to…
- ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to…
- Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong