Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Think! You can think any think that you wish.

I don't want to tell people what they should think.

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your thoughts. The kind of person you are comes from the way you think. And it bleeds into the way you feel. And such forth. If the mind is not free, then we won't be free.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

We can't stop people from thinking what they want to.

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Every thought is an afterthought.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

You can't think the thoughts you want to think if you think you're being watched.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.