"One has to taste an experience for oneself……" — Chogyam Trungpa
"One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience."
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168 Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words,…
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful,…
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The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we…
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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise,…
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about…
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are…
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind;…
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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world,…
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Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful…
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Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice…
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we…
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More Discarding Quotes
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The first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality involves giving thanks for everything that you have.
— Wayne Dyer
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Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them…
— Andy Warhol
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The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people.…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus…
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
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Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction…
— Tim Harford
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Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children…
— Pope Francis
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Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of…
— James Krenov
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Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will…
— Scott Cunningham
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Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a…
— Hermann Hesse
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