"In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness."

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Source : "Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpa".

Chogyam Trungpa

#Garden Quotes #Coconuts Quotes #May Quotes

“No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.”
“Cynicism's always a pose - always.”
“I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.”
“To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.”
“Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!”
“I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself.”
“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”

Source : Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso
“Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.”

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