For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
Chogyam TrungpaRead
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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 don't look for bliss.
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.
You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
All work is empty save when there is love.
What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.
Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.
The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.
Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.
The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Life is a lively process of becoming.
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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