Preconceptions come up in people’s relationship to money, their relationship to work, their relationship to sex, even their relationship to their parents. We find it difficult to relate to these things, especially as they manifest in urban life. That doesn’t mean, however, that we should run away from these issues. Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

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Further quotes from the book Work, Sex, Money:

• Awareness without Concept
• Skillful means
• Realistic Ambition
• Ceasing to imprison ourselves
• Inner softness
• Finding the intrinsic cheerfulness which exists in you
• Accommodating both wrong and right
• Now is everything
• Getting into the world
• Just do it
• Finding yourself in the middle of a living situation
• The difference between the enlightened and the confused state of mind
• Work is real
• Fundamental optimism