"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."

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Source : Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

Chogyam Trungpa

#Sitting Quotes #Earth Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.”
“I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.”
“On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.”
“You're always striving to play that perfect match.”
“A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.”
“Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some of the experimental work which is not available to us from the armchair.”
“Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness.”
“I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.”

Source : 'Cider with Rosie' (1959) p. 9

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