“Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is.”

Chapters: 48. Unlearning

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“Humor allows us to see that ultimately things don’t make sense.”

Chapters: 12. This Over That

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“Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion… we create elaborate scenarios and then react to them but there is nothing really happening outside our mind.”

Chapters: 20. Unconventional Mind

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“Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication.”

Chapters: 13. Honor and Disgrace

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“Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent, you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.”

Chapters: 65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness

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“When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don’t want to see is an ordinary human being.”

Chapters: 36. The Small, Dark Light

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“Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom, grater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind.”

Chapters: 16. Returning to the Root, Meditation

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“without inner richness, the sense of poverty and dissatisfaction never goes away.”

from It's Up to You

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“We expect to be comfortable all the time and when troubled wonder what went wrong. In fact we simply live in an unreliable world, there’s no escaping it.”

from It's Up to You

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“Richness and meaning don't lie outside of us. And life not just about 'what can I get?' or 'what don't I have?'... With this unrestricted mind of richness, even a beggar on the street can feel like a universal monarch.”

from It's Up to You

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“That inner yün magnetizes the yün of outer things. When our inner yün connects with the yün of the phenomenal world, we feel rich—much richer than most wealthy people”

from It's Up to You

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“We have no other option but to think seriously about sustainable living on Earth.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“The capitalist economy and attendant consumerism that dominate First World culture breed a compulsive feeling that we don't have enough, even when our closets are full of everything and anything. That is the effect of half a century of television advertising.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“Immersed in consumerism, how can we break away from this culture of addiction? We will need inner discipline and we'll need to choose a lifestyle of minimum needs and maximum contentment.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“We Tibetan refugees were poor and couldn't afford those things. In point of fact, we were living in harmony with nature and in balance with the environment—though we would not have recognized it as such.”

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“We should educate people in the Third World to understand that it's not poverty to live outside the confines of consumer society. In fact, it is richer for the human spirit and the environment.”

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“Until now, capitalism has pirated science and technology... In the 21st century, we should be able to use science and technology to create a waste-free, sustainable world for humans, animals, and plants. This is the highest, and as yet undiscovered, aspiration for science and technology.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“As a model, this discipline of minimum needs, maximum contentment speaks directly to the type of individual conservationism this is a theme of environmentally conscious culture.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“All religions are based upon principles that constitute an ethical way of life. Our current lifestyle does not uphold the human spirit and does not support an ethical way of living. In response, religions around the world must advance a strong spiritual approach to climate change.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“While corporations continue to pretend climate change is nature's doing... We simply point out that it's good for business to lose a bit of that excess weight. It's good for business to make a positive contribution to the world.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“The karma of global warming is not nature turning against us—we have turned against ourselves. We are doing something hostile to nature.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“Education is a counterforce to corporate greed... Our MBA programs must teach philosophy as well as economics, statistics, or how so-and-so won this year's award for marketing. They need to address critical global issues.”

from Minimum Needs and Maximum Contentment

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“Even from a prostitute and a hunter’s mouth, if what is coming out is something to do with compassion and wisdom then why not take it?”

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“My first knowledge of Trungpa is very funny. I was very young, ten I think... His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche had this small shrine and on this shrine there were not many statues, but there were many photos of lamas. And somewhere in the middle there was this man with a sort of army uniform [laughter] and his hat was a bit small so you could see his head was shaved like a Second World War Japanese army general or something...— I even thought that maybe the attendants had made a mistake... I think it’s really important to establish and strengthen and carry on the work that Trungpa Rinpoche initiated... He was not someone who gave into social expectations, conventional expectations... He is a great mahasiddha. You can tell. His work alone.

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