Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

Life is a work in progress.

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

I don't expect anyone to believe I will change, but I'm working on it.

Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change

Each place along the way is somewhere you had to be in order to be here.

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

For there is never any way to go but in.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.