Chogyam Trungpa Quotes (6 Quotes)

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

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. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

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.