Trungpa Rinpoche Quotes

#1. The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

Camille Claudel

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

Pema Chodron

#4. We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!

George Harrison

#5. Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.

Ron Fournier

#6. Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Aristotle.

#7. I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.

Kathy Hepinstall

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

James Surowiecki

#11. Why was I so hung up on anyone being brave? So what if 90 percent of artists, or people for that matter, were meek?

Peter Heller

#12. I hadn't really thought that far ahead. I was trying to put some distance between me and-"
"-the corset" He said, his dimples appearing

Mary Jane Hathaway

#13. We look in ... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

Michelle Hunziker

#14. The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.

Laura Schlessinger

#15. I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

Alfred Adler

#16. As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, "Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas." Bodhichitta

Pema Chodron

#17. What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

Deepak Chopra