There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987), formally named the 11th Zurmang Trungpa, Chokyi Gyatso, was a Tibetan Buddhist master and holder of both Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He was recognized by both Tibetan Buddhists and other spiritual practitioners and...

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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible conclusions.

—Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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Monetary donations to a spiritual cause, contributions of physical labor, involvement with a particular guru, none of these necessarily mean that we have actually committed ourselves to openness. More likely these kinds of commitments are simply ways of proving that we have joined the side of "right.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people, because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

—Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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Awareness is not something that needs to be manufactured: when there is a gap, awareness enters into us. So awareness does not require a certain particular effort. Such an effort is unnecessary. Awareness is like a wind. If you open your doors and windows, it is bound to come in.

—Chögyam Trungpa in The Path is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation

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Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

—Robert Musil

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The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

—Bette Midler

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Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.

—Eugene V. Debs

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

—Rose Kennedy

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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

—Madame de Stael

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