Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

Love is when I smile and breathe deeply down to my toes. I've given myself a gift of caring for myself and learned a new way to look at my issues. And I'm lying in some fresh sheets looking out the window at some visual beauty... a mountain, an ocean, a stream, a forest. A lovely man lying next to me or my babies sleeping.

Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

I am just relaxing and enjoying myself, doing what I always did.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.

To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Balance, I think, and self-care is something I want people to really take to heart.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

You have to be content with who you are on a day-to-day basis.

You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

My soul is in good shape.

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.