We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves, much more kind. Smile a lot, although nobody is watching you smile. Listen to your own brook, echoing yourself. You can do a good job. In the sitting practice of meditation, when you begin to be still, hundreds of thousands, millions, and billions of thoughts will go through your mind. But they just pass through, and only the worthy ones leave their eggs behind. We have to leave ourselves some time to be. You’re not going to see the Shambhala vision, you’re not even going to survive unless you leave yourself a minute to be, a minute to smile. Please give yourself a good time.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala

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• Facing our lives
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• Trusting in yourself first
• Smile at fear
• Decency is free from trickery
• Ordinary is extraordinary
• The majesty of the world is always there
• Somebody has to do it
• The heart of goodness in you
• Enjoy your goodness