Rinpoche Trungpa Quotes & Sayings

The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company's culture. — Tony Hsieh

As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, "Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas." Bodhichitta — Pema Chodron

Once I had an opportunity to talk with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, about the fact that I was not able to do my practice properly. I had just started the vajrayana practices and I was supposed to be visualizing. I couldn't visualize anything. I tried and tried but there was just nothing at all; I felt like a fraud doing the practice because it didn't feel natural to me. ( ... ). So he encouraged me by saying that as long as you have these kinds of doubts, your practice will be good. — Pema Chodron

Daddy had said No, but that had happened quite a while ago. Surely by now No had turned into a Yes. In fact, he was all but certain of it. — Thea Harrison

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals. — Perry DeAngelis

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it. — Jules Shear

It is partly because we are so willing to blame others for their mistakes that we are so keen to conceal our own. We — Matthew Syed

When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue. — Sakyong Mipham

[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment. — Steven Mithen

Arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of — Charles Dickens

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated. — Isaac Newton

The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is. — Woody Allen

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder. — Kevin Pollak

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. — Pamela Stephenson

Too much Chablis can make you whablis. — Ogden Nash

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
having reached morality - for that, much is lacking. — Immanuel Kant

You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages — John Piper

MY teacher Trungpa Rinpoche encouraged us to lead our lives as an experiment, a suggestion that has been very important to me. — Pema Chodron

Chogyam is spinning, watching the spinning / samsara; If there is no samsara / spinning, there is no Chogyam.
- from the poem Cynical Letter by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche — Trungpa Chogyam