Quotes from Chogyam Trungpa

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice. If we can start to do the exchange, breathing in with the intention of keeping our hearts open to the embarrassment or fear or anger that we feel, then to our surprise we find that we are also open to what the other person is feeling. Open heart is open heart.

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.