Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.