284 Quotes by Chögyam Trungpa

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse